144 Rev. Mr. Buckland’s Account of fossil Teeth and [Ave. 
hyena was nearly one-third larger than the largest of the modern 
species ; that is, the striped or Abyssinian; but in the structure 
of its teeth, more nearly resembled that of the Cape animal. 
(See Plate XV. fig. 1, 2, 3.) Its muzzle also was shorter and 
stronger than in either of them, and consequently its bite more 
powerful. The length of the largest modern hyena noticed is 
five feet nine inches. 
The fossil species has been found on the Continent in situa- 
tions of two kinds, both of them consistent with the circum- 
stances under which it occurs in Yorkshire, and, on comparing 
the jaws and teeth of the latter with those of the former engraved 
in MI. Cuvier’s Recherches sur les Ossements Fossiles, I find 
them to be absolutely identical. The two situations are caverns 
and diluvian gravel. 
1. In Franconia, a few bones of hyena were found mixed with 
those of an enormous number of bears, in the cave of Gailen- » 
reuth. 
2. At Muggendorf, in a similar cave. 
o. At Bauman, in ditto. 
4. At Fouvent, near Gray, in the department of Doubes, 
bones of hyena were found mixed with those of the elephant 
and horse in a fissure of limestone rock, which, like that at Kirk- 
dale, was discovered by the accidental digging away of the rock 
in a garden. 
5. At Canstadt, in the valley of the Necker, A. D. 1700, 
hyenas’ bones were found mixed with those of the elephant, 
rhinoceros, and horse, and with rolled pebbles, in a mass of 
yellowish clay. 
6. Between Hahldorf and Reiterbuck, on the surface of the 
hills that bound the -valley of Eichstadt, in Bavaria. These 
were buried in a bed of sand. 
The four first of these cases appear to have been dens, like 
the cave at Kirkdale; the two latter are deposits of diluvian 
detritus, like the surface gravel beds of England, in which simi- 
lar remains of all the other animals have been found, excepting 
hyzenas. 
{t has been observed when speaking of the den, that the bones 
of the hyenas are as much broken to pieces as those of the 
animals that formed their prey ; and hence we must infer that 
the carcases even of the hyenas themselves were eaten up by 
their survivors. Whether it be the habit of modern hyenas to 
devour those of their own species that die in the course of 
nature ; or under the pressure of extreme hunger to kill and eat 
the weaker of them, is a point on which it is not easy to obtain 
positive evidence. Mr. Brown, however, asserts, in his journey 
to Darfur, “ that it is related of the hyznas, that upon one of 
them being wounded, his companions instantly tear him to pieces 
and devour him.” It seems, therefore, in the highest degree 
probable, that the mangled relics of hyenas that lie indiscrimi- 
