2^6 FOSStL BONES !N CAVERNS IN GERMANY. 



hyena, more complete than those 1 had before represented, 

 but exhibiting precisely the same characters. The whole 

 of the lower edge and the condyloid pioccss are very per- 

 fect ; and the four jaw teeth are seen, but a little broken. 

 The anterior extremity and coronoid apophysis only are 

 wanting. 

 ^ The four jaw teeth occupy the length of 0-092 m. [3*6 in- 

 ches] nearly the same space as in the piece from Fou- 

 veut, a place in Franche-Comte, where fossil hones of the 

 hyena are found. 



Another fragment from the game place is part of the jaw- 

 bone of an hyena, which must have been larger than the 

 great hyena of tie Levant in the proportion of 3 to 2. 



Lastly Mr. Blumeubaeh sent me a drawing of the fourth 



or principal upper grinding tooth of an hyena found in the 



same place. 



Bones of an 2. A vary large animal of the genus felis has also left 



ammal of the numerous remains in these caverns. Proofs of this are found 

 genus relis, 



for those of Hungary in Yollguard's pa pel in the Ephem. 



"Nat. Cur., an. iv, dec. 1, obs. !J0, p. 2-27. It is an ungui- 



cular phalanx, easily known by its great vertical height, 



little length, and" different projections. 



Leibnitz in his Protogea has represented part of a fossii 



skull of an animal of this order found in the cavern of 



mentioned by Schartzfels. Soemmering lias given a more accurate deli- 

 oemmering, nea j.j on f t | ie saine specimen, which is at present in the 

 museum at Goettingen. He asserts, that this cranium per- 

 fectly resembles that of a middle sized lion, and differs from 

 that of the bear of the caverns in thirty-six particulars, 

 which he points out : but most of these particulars are com- 

 mon to ail the genus felis, and not peculiar to the lion. 



£ sper Esper lias had engraved several teeth found in the cavern 



of Gaylenreuth, which closely resemble those of an animal 

 of the felis genus, if we could depend on the accuracy of 

 the engraving : but the differences between some of these 

 teeth and those of the hyena depends on such slight varia- 

 tions, as might have escaped a common draughtsman. 



and Ro^n- Mr.Rosenmuelier promises soon to publish a work, which 



xnucller w j|j cou t; a ; n u description of the bones of an unknown animal 



of 



