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INTRODUCTION TO ZOOLOGY. 



To the Very Rev. Dr. Buckland, Dean of Westminster, we 

 owe a detailed account of a discovery even more interesting: 



Fig. 329. LEOPARD. 



that of a cave at Kirkdale, in Yorkshire, which had been in- 

 habited by Hysonas.* These animals are now met with only 

 in Asia and Africa; the 

 species represented in the 

 figure (Fig. 330), is found 

 at the Cape of Good Hope. 

 They live principally upon 

 carrion, thus presenting the 

 same analogy to the Tiger 

 that the Vulture does to 

 the Eagle. They also de- 

 vour the remains left by 

 other beasts of prey, and 

 crunch the bones, which 



they are enabled to do by the great strength of their jaw; 

 The teeth of Hyaenas found in the cave at Kirkdale, gi 

 evidence, Dr. Buckland states, of the existence of two 

 three hundred individuals. They belonged to an extim 

 species first made known by Cuvier, and exceeding in size the 

 largest species of Tiger. The whole extent of the floor 

 Kirkdale cavern was strewed with bones of different animal 



* Reliquiae Diluviaiise. 



of the 

 imals, 



