HYAENA SPELJ2A. 1 49 



den at Kirkdale." " The Hysena at Lawford appears, 



from its position in the diluvial clay, to have been one 

 that perished by the inundation that extirpated the race, 

 as well as the Elephant, Rhinoceros, and other tribes that 

 lie buried with it ; and, consequently, as it could have had 

 no survivors to devour its bones, we should on this hy- 

 pothesis expect to find them entire, as they are actually 

 found in the specimens before us."* 



With them were found some small bones of the foot, 

 apparently of the same individual Hyeena ; and subse- 

 quently an almost entire cranium was found in the same 

 superficial deposit, but at some distance from the lower 

 jaw, which, however, fitted so well the glenoid articular 

 cavities in the cranium, as to make it highly probable 

 that it belonged to the same individual. The teeth in 

 the upper maxillary bones of that skull shewed, by the ex- 

 tent to which they had been Fi 57 

 worn down, the same ad- 

 vanced age as those in the 

 lower jaw. The socket of 

 the small tubercular, or fifth 

 molar tooth, is preserved on 

 each side of this rare and 

 beautiful cranium, illustrat- 

 ing the character first ob- 

 served by M. de Blainville,-f- 

 in a fragment of the upper 

 jaw of a Hyana spelxa from Upper sectorial molapj p s? and 



a Continental locality, now of tubercular molar, nat. size, Hyama 



in the Parisian Museum; spel{ea ' 



viz. the small size and rounded form of the fifth or tuber- 

 cular molar, the socket of which is shown at m, in fig. 57. 

 * Loc. cit. p. 27. f Osteographie des Hyenes, 4to., p. 62. 



