FELIS SPELJEA. 167 



Like the Hyeena spelcea, the remains of the great ex- 

 tinct Tiger are not confined to ossiferous caverns, but occur 

 in the superficial unstratified deposits. Portions of both 

 upper and lower jaws, with parts of the rest of the skele- 

 ton, were discovered in 1829, together with remains of 

 the Mammoth, Rhinoceros, Ox, Stag, and Horse, in a 

 marl-pit near North Cliff, Yorkshire.* The pit is situated 

 on the eastern boundary of the red marl, where that stratum 

 approaches the low lias hills which skirt the south-western 

 side of the Wolds. The section of the pit yielded the 



following strata : 



Ft. In. 

 Black sand ....... 9 



Yellow sand .......1C 



White gravel, consisting of small pebbles of chalk, and angular 

 fragments of flint, with a few pieces of Grypluea incurva, and 

 fewer pebbles of sandstone . . . . 26 



Blue marl, irregularly penetrated by the gravel . . . 50 



Commencement of a blacker marl. 



This had been dug to the depth of ten feet, and here the 

 greater part of the fossil bones were found. The horns of 

 the Ox and the jaws of the spelaean Tiger lay near the 

 bottom of the excavation : the antler of the Stag, the 

 thigh-bone of the Mammoth, and one of the leg-bones of 

 the Rhinoceros, lay low in the upper marl. The bones 

 occupied a space of about twenty yards in length, and 

 eight in width. 



The following are the parts of the Felis spelcea, from 

 the above deposit, now preserved in the Museum of the 

 Yorkshire Philosophical Society : A fragment of the upper 

 jaw, containing the second and the great sectorial premolar 

 teeth : a lower jaw, with the part of the ascending rami 

 and articular processes broken away; it measures from 



* The circumstances attending the discovery of these bones are narrated by 

 the Rev. W. Vernon, F.R.S., in the Philosophical Magazine for 1829, vol. vi. 

 p. 225. 



