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The fossil remains of hyenas, it appears, have been found, not only in 

 the same caverns which contain the bones of bears, but in the same 

 alluvial beds in which are found the remains of elephants. 



Their remains are found in the cavern of Gaylenreuth. In the ele- 

 gant work of Esper, already referred to, an atlas, PI. III. Fig. 1 . is at- 

 tributed by him to this animal, which however appears to have belonged 

 to the bear; and, on the other hand, two teeth, PI. X. Fig. c, d, which 

 are supposed to have belonged to the lion, are certainly those of the 

 hyena. Collini, Memoires de I' Academic de Manheim, Tome V. PL u. has 

 represented the skull and half of a lower jaw, found near the surface of 

 one of the mountains which border the valley in which is situated the 

 village of Eichstaedt. This skull he describes as having belonged to some 

 unknown species of phoca; but from the number and figure of the teeth, 

 as well as from the remarkable elevation of the sagitto-occipital crista, 

 no doubt can exist of its being the skull of the hyena. Kundman also 

 figures a tooth, which he took himself from the rock in the cavern of 

 Bauman, and which he supposes to be that of a calf) but which is un- 

 doubtedly that of a hyena. M. Cuvier has also received the remains 

 of this animal from the valley of Neckar, near to Canstadt, so famous for 

 the quantity of elephantine remains which are there found. 



Thus it appears that the fossil remains of the hyena have been found 

 in four different parts of Germany. In France also, at Fouvent, near 

 Gray, in the department of Doubs, the remains of this animal have 

 been found ; and, as at Canstadt, mixed with the bones of elephants and 

 horses. 



The fossil bones of Canstadt were first found in the year 1700, and 

 considerable researches made for them by order of the then reigning 

 Duke of Wirtemberg. A dissertation was also written on them*, in 

 which, however, but little information is afforded ; the author, Dr. Da- 

 vid Spleiss, having chiefly engaged himself in determining, whether these 

 fossils were really the remains of animals, or merely the sports of nature. 



* Oedipus Osteolithologicus. 



