CANIS LUPUS. 



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CARNIVORA. 



CANIDJE. 



Fig. 45. 



Fossil Wolf, \ nat. size, Kent's Hole. 



CANIS LUPUS. Wolf. 



Loupfossile, CUVJER, Annales des Museum, torn. x. p. 432 ; Ossem. 



Foss. torn. iv. p. 458. 



Wolf, CLIFT, Philos. Trans. 1823, p. 90. PI. viii. and xii. 



BUCKLAND, Reliq. Diluv. pp. 18, 75, 89. 



Canis speteus, GOLDFUSS, Nova Acta, Nat. Curios, t. xi. pt. ii. p. 451. 



Loupfossile, SCHMERLING, Ossem. Foss. de Liege, t. ii. PL ii. iii. and iv. 



Canis Lupus, OWEN, Report of Brit. Association, 1 842. 



THE fossilized state of bones and teeth of the Wolf dis- 

 covered in caves, and their association with remains of ex- 

 tinct species of Mammalia found in the same state and 

 position, carry back the date of the existence of this Car- 

 nivore in great Britain to the period anterior to the depo- 

 sition and dispersion of the superficial drift. At a sub- 

 sequent period, when evidence of the state of the British 

 Fauna can be derived from historical records, we find the 

 Wolf amongst the earliest animals which are thus noticed. 

 In Ireland, a species continued to exist until the year 



