EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 



HISTORICAL EVIDENCE ENGLAND. 



Ancient British Period. Dio Nicseus, speaking 

 of the inhabitants of the northern parts of this 

 island, tells us they were a fierce and barbarous 



CRANIUM OF WOLF. UPPJill SUKFACE. (-3 NAT. S17.E.) 



people, who tilled no ground, but lived upon the 

 depredations they committed in the southern dis- 

 tricts or upon the food they procured by hunting. 

 Strabo also says (lib. iv.) that the dogs bred in 

 Britain were highly esteemed upon the Continent on 

 account o their excellent qualities for hunting, and 

 these qualities, he seems to hint, were natural to 



