128 CANID&. 
Oreston in company with Mr. Warburton, M.P., the pre- 
sent President of the Geological Society, states— 
‘The bones appeared to us to have been washed down 
from above, at the same time with the mud and fragments 
of limestone through which they are dispersed, and to have 
been lodged wherever there was a ledge or cavity suffici- 
ently capacious to receive them; they were entirely with- 
out order, and not in entire skeletons ; occasionally frac- 
tured, but not rolled; apparently drifted but to a short 
distance from the spot in which the animals died; they 
seem to agree in all their circumstances with the osseous 
breccia of Gibraltar, excepting the accident of their being 
less firmly cemented by stalagmitic infiltrations through 
their earthy matrix, and, consequently, bemg more de- 
cayed ; they do not appear, like those at Kirkdale, to bear 
marks of having been gnawed or fractured by the teeth of 
hyeenas, nor is there any reason to believe them to have 
been introduced by the agency of these animals.”* 
In respect to all the fossils referable to the genus Canis, 
which were submitted to Mr. Clift’s inspection, the closest 
and most careful comparisons demonstrated a perfect agree- 
ment of the jaw-bones, in size, in form, and in the arrange- 
ment of the teeth, with those of a full-grown recent Wolf. 
“The os humeri,” Mr. Clift says, ‘‘is perfectly similar, 
and has the rounded aperture through its lower extremity 
to receive the curved process of the olecranon.”-+ This 
character is shown at a, in the fossil figured in cut 47. 
Nevertheless, the experience of comparative anatomists 
teaches that the teeth and bones of the existing Wolf, 
referred to in the foregoing comparisons, are not distin- 
guishable from those of the larger varieties of the Dog, and 
* “ Reliquize Diluviane,” p. 73. + Philos. Trans. 1823, p. 97. 
