QUATERNARY FAUNA OF GIBRALTAR. Ue 
This identification of the Gibraltar Hywna with H. crocuta is perhaps one of the most 
interesting results of the exploration, as affording a strong confirmation of the pro- 
bability that the Cave-Hyena found its way into Europe from Africa, at least in part, 
by way of Spain, through which country its track may, in fact, almost be followed, since 
a jaw, pronounced by Dr. Falconer to be that of H. spelwa, is described by Don Casiano 
de Prado as having been discovered in the Cavern of Pedraza, near Segovia, associated 
with very ancient objects’. It has also occurred in Sicily’, where the specimen is 
described by Dr. Falconer as “ certainly not of the Indian Striped Hyena, but of the 
Hyena crocuta, or Spotted Hyena of the Cape,” and at Mentone, where it seems to have 
been coeval with man. 
It is also of interest here to remark that, so far as is at present known, no fossil 
remains referrible to H. striata have been discovered in Spain. The most southern 
known locality for that species appears to be the cavern of Lunel-Viel, in which the 
H. intermedia of Marcel de Serres undoubtedly represents H. striata. Nor does it seem 
to have occurred in the fossil state in Italy; so that in the present state of our 
knowledge it would appear to be not at all improbable that at the time when Europe 
and Africa were continuous by land the fauna of the latter continent did not include the 
Striped Hyena, whose centre of distribution, we may conclude, was probably in Asia. 
The only other remains of Hyena are numerous coprolites, to one of which is closely 
adherent a fragment of the atlas of an Ibex. ‘These objects, of course, show that the 
animal must have lived at no great distance from the spot at which the remains were 
entombed. 
V. FELIS. 
The fossil remains from the Genista Cave establish by very distinct evidence the 
existence in the ancient fauna of several species of Felis, varying in size from the 
Leopard to nearly that of the Wild Cat. 
Of these the largest was a form undistinguishable from the existing F. PARDUS, or 
Panther, of the opposite African coast, 
The specimens referrible to this animal, all of which, it is highly probable, belonged 
to one and the same individual, are :— 
1. A portion of the left maxilla, containing the alveolus of the outer incisor, the 
canine broken off recently to the level of the alveolus, the empty alveolus occupied 
by stalagmite of the first premolar (pm. 2) and the entire second premolar (pm. 3). 
(Pl. III. fig. 2.) PAS e 
2. The nearly entire right mandible, retaining the canine and three molars (pm. 3, 
pm. 4, m. 1), all perfect, and the socket of the outer incisor. (PI. III. fig. 1.) 
3. Half the left mandible pairing with the above, although they were found at some 
* Descripcion fisica y geologica de la Provincia de Madrid, 1864, p. 216. 
> Falconer, Pal. Mem. ii. p. 465. 
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