FELIS SPELAA. 165 
have any fossil crania or teeth of the same surpassing 
magnitude as is displayed by those bones been yet disco- 
vered in the Continental caverns. 
Pig. 64. 
Four canine teeth and four sec- 
torial molars of the lower jaw 
(fig. 64) are enumerated by Dr. 
Buckland, to whom we owe the 
first announcement of the Fe/is 
spelea as a British fossil, amongst 
the specimens from the cave at 
Kirkdale.* With respect to the 
great Tigers indicated by these 
fossils, which were extremely rare 
as compared with the Hyzenas, 
Dry Buckland: thinks, it “* more — Sectorial molar.» Nat. size. 
probable that the Hyzenas found ames 
their dead carcasses, and dragged them to the den, than 
that they were ever joint tenants of the same cavern.” + 
A metatarsal bone, the third of the right hind-foot, from 
the Kirkdale cavern, surpasses a little in thickness, but not 
in length, the corresponding bone in a large Bengal Tiger ; 
it may have belonged to a young, or a female, of the Felis 
spelaa. 
Two canine teeth of the Felis spelea were obtained 
from the cavernous fissures at Oreston: one of these be- 
longing to the upper jaw measures three inches and three 
quarters im length, and both are inferior in size to the 
canine from Kent’s Hole (fig. 65) ; but, like it, they present 
the two characteristic longitudinal indentations upon the 
crown @ c: they may have belonged to a small female 
of the spelean Tiger. 
From the paucity of the remains of the Felis spelea in 
* Reliquiz Diluviane, pp. 17 and 261, + Ib. p. 35. 
