158 HY ANA. 
Fig. G1. 
Lower jaw of young Hyena spelea, 4 nat. size. Kent’s Hole. 
A great proportion of the skeleton of the Hyena spelaa 
has now been recovered from the different localities of that 
extinct species in England. The larger bones of the extre- 
mities found in Kent’s Hole are fractured, as in the Kirk- 
dale cave; but the smaller bones, as the astragalus, calca- 
neum, metacarpals, and metatarsals, are, for the most part, 
remarkably perfect. They differ from their analogues in 
the skeleton of the Hyena crocuta chiefly in their larger 
and more robust proportions: the scapula appears to be 
rather narrower in proportion to its articular extremity ; 
the deltoid crest of the humerus is longer and stronger. 
In the numerous specimens of the fossil Hyzena from 
British localities, which I have examined and compared 
in public and private collections, I have not hitherto de- 
tected any characters indicative of a species distinct from 
the Hyena spelea; the differences observed have been 
those only of size and dental development, depending on 
diversity of sex and age. Of that fossil species which is 
more nearly allied to the Striped Hyena (Hyena Mons- 
pessulana, Christol), no trace has presented itself to my 
notice. It appears to have been confined to the middle 
of France, Languedoc, and Italy. Fossil remains of the 
Hyena have been discovered by MM. Baker and Durand* 
in the tertiary strata of the Sewalik Hills; and, what is 
* Journal of the Bengal Asiatic Society, vol, iv. 1835, p. 569, pl. 46. 
