138 HY ANA. 
CARNIVORA. VIVERRIDE. 
Fossil, } nat. size, Kent’s Hole. 
HY/AENA SPELAGA. Cave Hyena. 
Hyéne fossiie, Cuvier, Ann. du Muséum, tom. vi. p. 127. 
Hyena spelea, Gotpruss, Die Umgebungen von Muggendorf, 1810, 
12mo. p. 280. 
Fossil Hyena, Buck.anp, Reliquiz Diluviane, passim. 
Hyena spelea, OweEN, Report of British Association, 1842. 
Tue Hyena is the largest and most aberrant of that 
tribe of Carnivorous quadrupeds of which the Genet and 
Civet-cats may be regarded as the type, and it makes the 
nearest approach to the Feline genus in its dentition. But 
its habits are less destructive; it seeks the dead carcase 
rather than a living prey, and does not disdain carrion ; in 
this respect, bearing the same analogy to the Lion and 
Leopard, that the Vulture does to the Eagle and Falcon. 
With the number of incisors $, and canines 4:1, common 
to the Carnivora, the Hyzna has four molars in each ramus 
of the lower jaw; animals of the Cat kind having three 
molars, and those of the Dog kind seven, in the same bone. 
