FELIS SPEL2ZA. 167 
Like the Hyena spelwa, the remains of the great ex- 
tinct Tiger are not confined to ossiferous caverns, but occur 
in the superficial unstratified deposits. Portions of both 
upper and lower jaws, with parts of the rest of the skele- 
ton, were discovered in 1829, together with remains of 
the Mammoth, Rhinoceros, Ox, Stag, and Horse, in a 
marl-pit near North Cliff, Yorkshire.* The pit is situated 
on the eastern boundary of the red marl, where that stratum 
approaches the low lias hills which skirt the south-western 
side of the Wolds. The section of the pit yielded the 
following strata :— 
Bite ee lins 
Black sand. 3 : : ; ; : 0 9 
Yellow sand . : F é A c s ] 6 
White gravel, consisting of small pebbles of chalk, and angular 
fragments of flint, with a few pieces of Gryphea incurva, and 
fewer pebbles of sandstone : : é é 2 6 
Blue marl, irregularly penetrated by the gravel 3 A 5 0 
Commencement of a blacker marl. 
This had been dug to the depth of ten feet, and here the 
greater part of the fossil bones were found. The horns of 
the Ox and the jaws of the spelean Tiger lay near the 
bottom of the excavation: the antler of the Stag, the 
thigh-bone of the Mammoth, and one of the leg-bones of 
the Rhinoceros, lay low in the upper marl. The bones 
occupied a space of about twenty yards in length, and 
eight in width. 
The following are the parts of the Felis spelwa, from 
the above deposit, now preserved in the Museum of the 
Yorkshire Philosophical Society : A fragment of the upper 
jaw, containing the second and the great sectorial premolar 
teeth: a lower jaw, with the part of the ascending rami 
and articular processes broken away ; it measures from 
* The circumstances attending the discovery of these bones are narrated by 
the Rev. W. Vernon, F.R.S., in the Philosophical Magazine for 1829, vol. yi. 
p. 225. 
