156 CANID#. 
Hyena. One of these fossils, the anterior half of the left 
ramus of the lower jaw, is figured at the commencement 
of the present section; it retains the canine and the last 
three of the series of five premolars. A second fossil, (jig. 
53,) consisting of the hinder half of the same ramus of the 
lower jaw of another individual, retains the last premolar 
or sectorial tooth, p, and the first tubercular molar, m. 
Mr. Whidbey obtained from the gallery 5, of the Ores- 
ton cavern, (fig. 50,) which yielded the bones of the Wolf, 
several fossil remains of the Fox, of which I have identi- - 
fied the following :— 
Two canine teeth of the lower jaw. 
A cervical vertebra. 
A dorsal vertebra. 
The shaft of a humerus. 
A portion of the shaft of a femur. 
The two latter fossils are relatively more slender than in 
the Jackall. Some of the above remains are noticed by 
Mr. Clift, in his Paper in the Philosophical Transactions, 
before quoted, and all are, as he describes, ‘‘ equally fragile 
and absorbent with those of the other animals.”* 
Although, from the habits of concealment of the Fox, 
its bones might be expected to be found in caves and 
cavernous fissures more commonly than those of the Dog 
or Wolf, yet the testimony of Mr. Whidbey is adverse 
to the hypothesis of the recent introduction of the above- 
mentioned fossils into the Oreston caverns. With re- 
spect to them, he writes, ‘ These, I think, will be the 
last bones I shall send you from these caves, as they are 
now nearly worked out. The cave B,” (fig. 50,) “ termi- 
nated near where it was first seen; the head of it was 
closed over with a body of limestone. The joints of the 
* Loe. cit. p. 96. 
