CANIS FAMILIARIS. 33 
CANIS FAMILIARIS. Dog. 
RecocnizaBLe remains of the Dog have been, in fact, ob- 
tained from Bone-caves. Dr. Schmerling* has described and 
figured an almost entire skull, two right rami of lower jaws, 
a humerus, ulna, radius, and some smaller bones indicating 
two varieties of the domestic dog, notably differmg in size 
from each other, as well as from the Wolf and Fox, whose 
bones, with those of the Bear and Hyzna, occur in the 
same cavern. 
The canine remains in question, are too small for the 
Wolf and too large for the Fox, and the conclusion that 
they belonged to the Dog, is admitted by M. de Blainyille 
to be proved by the frontal elevation of the skull, which 
exceeds that in the Wolf. 
The skull of a small variety of Dog with the latter 
characteristic well developed, was submitted to Mr. Clift 
by a person who had obtained it from an English Bone- 
cave: it had belonged, in Mr. Clift’s opinion, to a small 
bull-dog or large pug: and it was not in the same absorbent 
state, as the true cave fossils. 
Possibly the bones of the Dog described by Dr. Schmer- 
ling, may have been in the same comparatively recent state 
in which the Human remains of the Belgian caverns, 
attributed, together with those of the Dog, to the epoch of 
the extinct species, were proved to be by Dr. Buckland. 
* Recherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles découverts dans les Cayernes de Lie€ge, 
tom. ii. pl. ii. 
