156 HY ENA. 
Mr. Stutchbury in the cavernous fissure lately opened on 
Durdham Down near Bristol. These remains were associ- 
ated, as usual, with those of the Bear and Wolf, of a large 
Bovine animal, of the Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus, and young 
Mammoths. The bones were all detached and broken into 
small bits; and the proportion of teeth and horns to the 
other parts of the body greatly preponderated. In reference 
to the possible modes of the accumulation of these remains, 
Mr. Stutchbury argues that ‘the first method by floods is ex- 
cluded, because, as in all diluvial accumulations, there would 
have been a mixture of rolled stones of various kinds. If 
the animals had fallen into the fissure, whole skeletons, or 
at least all the bones of a single individual, would have been 
entombed. But, so far from this beimg the case, the recep- 
tacle would not contain a number approaching to that of 
the animals whose remains are here found. On the other 
hand, the theory that the cave was the den of Hyzenas, 
is consistent with all the observed facts. The habits of 
these animals to tear up putrid carcases, to carry off por- 
tions to their dens in rocks, to crush with violent force the 
bones of their prey, the gnawed and splintered condition of 
the bones, are circumstances which render the last-adduced 
theory highly probable, and worthy to be assumed as the 
tRMEHOME.s 2h. 3! ‘By comparison of the teeth of the fossil 
Hyena with those of recent animals, their enormous size 
was strikingly shewn; those of the Hy«na proved it to 
have been larger than the largest known species of tiger.” 
Mr. Stutchbury does not give the admeasurements. 
The skull from the bone-cave called Kent’s Hole near 
Torquay, figured at the head of the present section, (cut 
54,) measures fourteen inches in total length, and exhibits 
the dental characters, and the strong intermuscular ridges 
of the formidable spelean Hyzna in great perfection. 
