HYENA SPELEA. 149 
den at Kirkdale.”..... “ The Hyena at Lawford appears, 
from its position in the diluvial clay, to have been one 
that perished by the inundation that extirpated the race, 
as well as the Elephant, Rhinoceros, and other tribes that 
lie buried with it ; and, consequently, as it could have had 
no survivors to devour its bones, we should on this hy- 
pothesis expect to find them entire, as they are actually 
found in the specimens before us.”* 
With them were found some small bones of the foot, 
apparently of the same individual Hyena; and_ subse- 
quently an almost entire cranium was found im the same 
superficial deposit, but at some distance from the lower 
jaw, which, however, fitted so well the glenoid articular 
cavities in the cranium, as to make it highly probable 
that it belonged to the same individual. The teeth in 
the upper maxillary bones of that skull shewed, by the ex- 
tent to which they had been 
Fig. 57. 
worn down, the same ad- 
vanced age as those in the 
lower jaw. The socket of 
the small tubercular, or fifth 
molar tooth, is preserved on 
each side of this rare and 
beautiful cranium, illustrat- 
ing the character first ob- 
served by M. de Blainville,+ 
in a fragment of the upper 
jaw of a Hyana spelea from Upper sectorial molar, p s, and socket 
a Continental locality, now of tubercular molar, nat. size, Hyena 
: spelea. 
in the Parisian Museum; °° 
viz. the small size and rounded form of the fifth or tuber- 
cular molar, the socket of which is shown at m, in fig. 57. 
* Toca cits. 27. + Ostéographie des Hyenes, 4to., p. 62. 
