398 PETRIFACTIONS AND THEIR TEACHINGS. CHAP. IV. 



carnivora. The Hyena was allied to the spotted species of the 

 Cape, but differed in the form of the teeth and skull. 



Bones of the Elephant and Rhinoceros are said to have 

 been discovered, together with those of existing animals, and 

 fragments of sepulchral urns of high antiquity.' 



Since the publication of the " Ossemens Fossiles" fossil 

 remains of carnivora have been found in numerous localities 

 of the Continent, and in our own island, and their anatomical 

 characters and affinities examined and determined. In the 

 " History of British Fossil Mammals," those of England are 

 illustrated and described. 



FOSSIL BEARS OF THE CAVERNS. Wall-case G. The col- 

 lection contains a fine suite of crania, and jaws with teeth, and 

 numerous detached teeth, and bones of other parts of the 

 skeleton, of the two well-known species of cave-bears ( Ursus 

 spelceus, and Ursus prisons) ; and teeth and bones of hyenas, 

 tigers, and other carnivora. As the bones are not arranged 

 and labelled so as to admit of being identified without close 

 inspection, our remarks must necessarily be limited to a few 

 obvious specimens. 



URSUS SPELCEUS, AND U. pRiscus. Wall-case G : Lower 

 compartment. The bones are principally referable to two 

 extinct species of the genus Ursus; the largest has the skull 

 more prominent in front than in any living species, and was 

 named by M. Cuvier Ursus spelceus, or Cave-Bear ; the other, 

 which is of less size, and with a flattened forehead, is distin- 

 guished as Ursus priscus. A very extraordinary type of 

 carnivora, which was named by Cuvier Ursus cultridens, 

 from its enormous sabre -like canine teeth, is now placed in 

 a distinct genus Machairodus. 



Ursus spelceus. As the specific differences between the 

 species of fossil cave- bears, of which there are some fine 

 crania in the collection, chiefly relate to minute anatomical 

 characters, which cannot be rendered intelligible without 

 figures, it must suffice to mention in general terms, that the 

 skull of the great Bear of the Caverns (Ursus spelceus) is 

 much larger than that of any other species ; the forehead is 



1 Dr. Buckland's " Keliquiae Diluvianse," previously referred to, con- 

 tains a full account of the most remarkable ossiferous caverns and their 

 contents. 



