124 CANIDA. 
1710; in Scotland, to the year 1680; in England, it was 
extirpated at a much earlier period. 
The first mention of the enduring remains of a large species 
of Canis, indicating the antiquity of this genus in England, 
is made in the ‘ Account of the Assemblage of fossil Teeth 
and Bones in the Cave at Kirkdale in Yorkshire,” by Dr. 
Buckland, published in the Transactions of the Royal 
Society for 1822: this was followed in the succeeding 
year by a paper, containing a description of more numerous 
and perfect fossil remains of a Wolf, by Mr. Clift, in the 
same Transactions. 
The remains of the large species of Canis discovered in 
the Kirkdale Cavern were singularly scanty as contrasted 
with the prodigious number of fossil teeth and bones of the 
genus Hyena, much fewer, indeed, than was originally 
supposed, Cuvier having pointed out that some of the teeth 
at first referred to the Wolf, were the deciduous teeth of 
young Hyeenas. In the ‘ Reliquize Diluvianee,” Dr. Buck- 
land says, ‘ Of the Wolf, I do not recollect that I have 
seen more than one large molar tooth.” This is figured 
in Plate XIII. (fig. 5 and 6); it is the carnassial, or sec- 
torial tooth of the right side of the lower jaw, and offers 
no character by which the Wolf can be distinguished from 
the larger varieties of the Dog. 
At Paviland, on the coast of Glamorganshire, in one of 
the caves called Goat’s Hole, facing the sea, in the front 
of a lofty cliff of limestone, which rises more than one 
hundred feet perpendicularly above the mouth of the caves, 
and below them slopes, at an angle of about 40°, to the 
water's edge, presenting a bluff and rugged shore to the 
waves, there were found, associated with remains of the 
extinct Mammoth, Rhinoceros, and Hyena, the following 
fossils of a species of Canis, the size of a Wolf ;—one lower 
