124 CANID^E. 



1710; in Scotland, to the year 1680; in England, it was 

 extirpated at a much earlier period. 



The first mention of the enduring remains of a large species 

 of Canis, indicating the antiquity of this genus in England, 

 is made in the " Account of the Assemblage of fossil Teeth 

 and Bones in the Cave at Kirkdale in Yorkshire," by Dr. 

 Buckland, published in the Transactions of the Royal 

 Society for 1822 : this was followed in the succeeding 

 year by a paper, containing a description of more numerous 

 and perfect fossil remains of a Wolf, by Mr. Clift, in the 

 same Transactions. 



The remains of the large species of Canis discovered in 

 the Kirkdale Cavern were singularly scanty as contrasted 

 with the prodigious number of fossil teeth and bones of the 

 genus Hy&na, much fewer, indeed, than was originally 

 supposed, Cuvier having pointed out that some of the teeth 

 at first referred to the Wolf, were the deciduous teeth of 

 young Hysenas. In the " Reliquiae Diluvianse," Dr. Buck- 

 land says, " Of the Wolf, I do not recollect that I have 

 seen more than one large molar tooth." This is figured 

 in Plate XIII. (fig. 5 and 6) ; it is the carnassial, or sec- 

 torial tooth of the right side of the lower jaw, and offers 

 no character by which the Wolf can be distinguished from 

 the larger varieties of the Dog. 



At Paviland, on the coast of Glamorganshire, in one of 

 the caves called Goat's Hole, facing the sea, in the front 

 of a lofty cliff of limestone, which rises more than one 

 hundred feet perpendicularly above the mouth of the caves, 

 and below them slopes, at an angle of about 40, to the 

 water's edge, presenting a bluff and rugged shore to the 

 waves, there were found, associated with remains of the 

 extinct Mammoth, Rhinoceros, and Hysena, the following 

 fossils of a species of Canis, the size of a Wolf; one lower 



