126 CANIDA. 
bouring cavernous fissures, are described and figured by 
Mr. Clift.* 
Of the fossils from the Oreston Caverns, which I have 
personally examined, the following are referable to a Wolf 
or large species of Canis— 
The left side of the lower jaw, with the entire series of 
teeth. 
Four less entire rami of the lower jaw, with various pro- 
portions of the dental series: one of these is from a young, 
but nearly full-grown animal, and is remarkable for the 
evidence of disease, probably the consequence of injury in- 
flicted by the bite of a stronger animal: the jaw is en- 
larged by exostosis and ulcerated near the angle, which is 
perforated, at a, by the ulceration consequent upon an 
abscess, or sinus, which has eaten through the bone. It has 
been figured by Mr. Clift, and the subjoined cut gives a 
reduced view of this singular example of antediluvian disease. 
Fig. 46. 
Diseased jaw, fossil Wolf, Oreston. 
Besides the jaws there were collected detached specimens 
of nearly all the teeth of both upper and lower jaws ; 
* Philos. Trans., 1823, p. 78. 
