FELIS SPELvEA. 



161 



CARN1VORA. 



FELIDJE. 



Fig. 63. 



nat. size. Kent's Hole. 



FELIS SPEL^A. Great Cave Tiger. 



ESPER and ROSENMULLKR, Beschreib- 



ung der Zoolithen in den Gailenreu- 



ter Hohlen. 

 Animal d it genre du Tigre ou du Lion, CUVIER, Annales du Museum, ix. 1806, 



p. 429. 

 BUCKLAND, Reliquiae Diluvianae, pp. 17, 



72, 261. 

 GOLD FUSS, Die Umgebungen von Mug- 



gendorf, 1818. 

 CUVIER, Ossem. Foss. Ed. 1823. iv. p. 



449. 

 OWEN, Report of British Association, 



Fossil animal of the Tiger-kind, 

 Felis spelcea, 



Felis spel&a, 



1842. 



IT is too commonly supposed that the Lion, the Tiger, 

 and the Jaguar are animals peculiarly adapted to a tropical 

 climate. The genus Felis is, however, represented by 



