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and teeth of a species of Hog and of Deer, are preserved, 

 from the same locality as the tooth of the pard-like Feline ; 

 and Mr. Lyell, judging from their appearance, inclines to 

 the opinion that they are all of the age of the red crag. 

 " They seem," he says, " to have undergone precisely the 

 same process of trituration, and to have been impregnated 

 with the same colouring matter, as some of the associated 

 bones and teeth of fishes which we know to have been 

 derived from the regular strata of the red crag."* The 

 probability of the Fells pardoides being a veritable fossil of 

 the red crag brings to mind the examples of the same genus 

 in strata of equal antiquity, in the great Felis aphanista, 

 Kaup, and the Felis antediluviana, Kaup, which is a species 

 of the size of the Newbourn fossil : both Felis aphanista 

 and F. antediluviana were discovered by Dr. Kaup -f- as- 

 sociated with Dinotheriums and Mastodons in the miocene 

 sand at Epplesheim. 



MM. Croizet and Jobert J have also discovered in the 

 tertiary strata of Auvergne, in the neighbourhood of Par- 

 dines, a fossil Cat, Felis pardinensis, about the size of the 

 Leopard. 



* Annals of Natural History, vol. iv. 1840, p. 188. 

 ( Ossem. Foss. du Museum de Darmstadt, pt. ii. 

 Ossem. Foss. du Puy-de-D6me, p. 201. 



