HY ENA SPELAA. 151 
ened mortar, in which remains of animals have been from 
time to time detected, including stags’ horns, and bones 
of great size. In clearing away the limestone, a large part 
of the principal fissure has been obliterated, and most of 
the bones first discovered have been lost. Through the 
zeal, however, of Dr. Lloyd and Mr. Duppa Lloyd, other 
remains have recently been collected, which sufficiently 
prove the character of the accumulation; for not only 
have bones of deer and ox been found, but also a perfect 
tooth of a Hyana and the femur of a Rhinoceros, together 
with several small bones which have not been deter- 
mined.” * 
The specimen of the Hyena spe- 
lea obtained by Mr. Brown of Stan- 
way, from the till which forms part 
of the beach at Walton Naze on the 
Kssex coast, is not only more cha- 
racteristic of the extinct species, con- 
sisting as it does of nearly the whole 
of the left ramus of the lower jaw, but 
the satisfaction of a personal examina- 
tion of it has been afforded me, with 
the permission of taking the subjoined 
(fig. 58). The four molars remain 
in the jaw, which also includes the 
symphysis and the socket of the ca- 
nine (/), showing that this tooth had 
equalled that of the largest fossil 
Hyzenas from the cave depositaries. 
The crowns of the posterior molars Lower jaw, Hyena spelea, 
are much abraded, especially the MUON gut 
last, ps; and the exposed parts of the fangs shew them to 
* Silurian System, p. 553. 
