A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK 



a member of the cat tribe agreeing approximately in size with the 

 leopard is represented by a lower carnassial or flesh-tooth from the Red 

 Crag of Newbourn near Woodbridge. Upon this specimen, which is 

 preserved in the museum at Ipswich, Sir R. Owen ^ founded his Felts 

 pardoides, but there is no evidence to show that this is really distinct from 

 the leopard [F. pardus), of which it probably represents an extinct race. 

 A second tooth of the same feline subsequently found near Newbourn 

 was also described by Owen.^ Although the spotted hyasna is unknown 

 in the Crag, the striped species is represented by certain cheek-teeth 

 from the Red Crag of Felixstow originally described by Professor E. Ray 

 Lankester' as Hyana antiqua ; as well as by a right upper carnassial in 

 the Ipswich Museum from the Red Crag of Trimley St. Mary, and a 

 corresponding tooth of the opposite side, preserved in the York Museum, 

 from Woodbridge. The latter specimens present no characters by which 

 they can be satisfactorily distinguished from the corresponding teeth of 

 the existing striped hysna, but since the Crag representative of that 

 animal probably formed a distinct race, it may be designated H. striata 

 antiqua. Remains of the wolf [Canis lupus) have been recorded from the 

 Forest Bed within the county, and the occurrence of the same species in 

 the Red Crag is indicated by three teeth in the York Museum, two of 

 which came from Boyton. The imperfect skull of a fox (C. vulpes) 

 from above the nodule bed at the latter place, now preserved in the 

 British Museum, has been regarded by some as not a true Red Crag fossil, 

 but this opinion was not shared by the late Mr. R. Bell, by whom it 

 was collected. A worn tooth, now in the York Museum, from the Red 

 Crag of Woodbridge, was described by Professor Lankester as Canis 

 primigenius, but, judging from the structure of the enamel, Mr. Newton 

 is inclined to believe that it is really cetacean. 



Among the weasel family it is possible that the polecat [Mustela 

 putorius) may have lived in the Crag period, as the British Museum 

 possesses a fragment of the lower jaw of that animal from the Coralline 

 Crag of Orford ; it does not appear however to be certain that the 

 specimen is really of Crag age. An otter, provisionally identified with 

 the extinct continental species known as Lutra dubia, is represented by 

 a lower jaw from the Red Crag nodule bed of Foxhall near Wood- 

 bridge.* 



Of far greater interest is a fragment of a lower jaw from the 

 nodule bed of the Red Crag at Felixstow, now preserved in the York 

 Museum, which has been described under the name of JElurus 

 anglicus by Professor W, B. Dawkins.^ The genus to which this 

 species belongs is represented at the present day only by the long- 

 tailed panda or red cat-bear {/E. splendens) of the eastern Himalaya, and 

 till the identification of the fossil jaw no extinct representative of the 

 group was known. Another fragment of the jaw of the Crag species, 



* Brit. Foss. Mamm. and Birds, p. 169 (1846). ^ ^arl. Journ. Geo/. Soc. xii. 266 (1856). 



* jinn. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xiii. 56. * See Newton, op. cit. p. 12. 



* Sluart. Journ. Geol. Soc. xlvi. 451 (1890). 



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