144 HY2ENA. 



torn of the den, occasionally adhering together by stalag- 

 mite, and forming, as has been before mentioned, an osse- 

 ous breccia. Many insulated fragments, also, are wholly 

 or partially enveloped with stalagmite, both externally 

 and internally. Not one skull is to be found entire ; and 

 it is so rare to find a large bone of any kind that has not 

 been more or less broken, that there is no hope of ob- 

 taining materials for the construction of a single limb, and 

 still less of an entire skeleton. The jawbones also, even 

 of the Hyaenas, are broken to pieces like the rest, and, 

 in the case of all the animals, the number of teeth and 

 of solid bones of the tarsus and carpus, is more than 

 twenty times as great as could have been supplied by the 

 individuals whose other bones we find mixed with them."* 



Fragments of jaws were by no means common, but 

 Dr. Buckland observed about forty which belonged to 

 the Hy&na spelaa. The greatest number of the teeth 

 are those of the Hyaenas and the Ruminant animals. 



Dr. Buckland says, " Mr. Gibson alone collected more 

 than three hundred canine teeth of the Hysena, which, 

 at least, must have belonged to seventy-five individuals, 

 and, adding to these the canine teeth I have seen in other 

 collections, I cannot calculate the total number of Hyaenas, 

 of which there is evidence, at less than two hundred or 

 three hundred. 



" The only remains that have been found of the Tiger 

 species are two large canine teeth and a few molar teeth, 

 exceeding in size those of the largest Lion or Bengal 

 Tiger. There is one tusk only of a Bear, which exactly 

 resembles those of the extinct Ursus spelaus of the caves 

 of Germany. 



" In many of the most highly preserved specimens of 

 teeth and bones, there is a curious circumstance, which, 



* "Reliquiae Diluviana?," p. 15. 



