148 HY ENA. 
to have been described in the striking quotation which Dr. 
Buckland has given from Busbee :— 
“ Sepulchra suffodit, extrahitque cadavera portatque ad 
suam speluncam, juxta quam videre est ingentem cumulum 
ossium humanorum veterinariorum et reliquorum omne ge- 
nus animalium.” 
No heaps of bones, however, were found on the outside 
of the Kirkdale cave, as described by Busbec on the out- 
side of the Hyznas’ dens in Anatolia; such evidences of 
the old inhabitants must have been dispersed by the geo- 
logical force which has left more conspicuous and lasting 
traces of its operation in the Vale of Pickering. 
It is a most interesting and remarkable fact, and one of 
which Dr. Buckland has ably availed himself in support 
of his explanation of the causes of the accumulation of the 
fossil bones in the cave at Kirkdale, that the remains of the 
Hyeenas which occur in the unstratified drift or diluvial 
gravel show no marks of gnawing or fracture, like those 
on the cave bones. An entire under jaw, a radius, and 
ulna, of a very old and large Hyena, which were asso- 
ciated with the remains of the Mammoth and extinct 
two-horned Rhinoceros, at Lawford, near Rugby, were in 
the highest possible state of preservation, and, “ supplied, 
says Dr. Buckland, the only link that was deficient to 
complete the evidence I wanted to establish the Hyena’s 
d’Hyénes, y ont été apportés par elles, et nullement par inondations.”— 
Ostéographie des Hyenes, p. 76. Since, however, it is incontestable that Hyznas 
devour and digest the bones of other Mammals, we must suppose them capable of 
digesting the dentine and cement of teeth, which substances form so large a pro- 
portion of those organs, and are so closely similar to bone in physical and chemical 
properties. With regard to the enamel in the Coprolites, Dr. Buckland expressly 
states that it was undigested. No doubt, Hyzenas do not feed upon teeth ; but 
to render such an objection valid against Dr. Buckland’s interpretation of the 
coprolitic fossils of Kirkdale, it ought to be shewn that the modern Hyzenas, 
before they proceed to crunch the head of a deer or sheep, are careful to extract 
all the teeth. 
