animal re-<-m- 

 MiiJg ilie tax; 



SOO FOSSIL KOXE& IN CAVERNS IN GERMANY. 



has some of these wolf's heads from Kahldorf, in the county 

 of KtebsJaedt, taken from the quarry where the hyena's head 

 deoibed by Collnii was found, which I have mentioned 

 elsewhere. 



Bones of an 4. We have also the bones of an animal very like the 



fox, if it be not the fox itself, at Gaylenreuth. Mr. Ros- 

 enniueller thinks, that these, with the human bones, and 

 those of the sheep and badger, are more recent than tho?e 

 of the bear, as they are in better preservation. It is possi- 

 ble, that there may be such, but to those I am going to 

 mention this does not apply. They were embedded in the 

 same tufa as the bones of the hear and hyena, from which 

 I extracted them myself; and their composition is not less 

 altered. If they be whiter, it is perhaps because, being 

 smaller, the causes capable of depriving them of their ani- 

 mal matter acted upon them with more force. 



Terjr abun- They must be very common there, for 1 took all those of 



which I am speaking from a block a few inches in diameter, 

 composed in great part of bones of the bear and hyena : 

 but they who have searched these caverns have been struck 

 only with the large bones, and have neglected the smaller, 

 which are neither less curious, nor of less importance to- 

 ward the solution of the grand problem of fossil bones. 



Enumeiation My foxes bones consist of the following: 1, an outer in- 



ut ilbsew. cisive tooth: 2. a canine tooth; both of the lower jaw; 3, 



an lingular phalanx: 4, an intermediate phalanx: 5, a first 

 phalanx : 6, a phalanx of the imperfect toe of the hind foot : 

 7, a first metatarsal bone : 8, a cuneiform bone of the car- 

 pus: 9, a first cuneiform of the tarsus: 10, a second cunei- 

 form of the tarsus: 11, a vertebra of the middle of the 

 tail : 12, several sesamoid bones. 



To this species I also refer the canine tooth represented 

 . by Esper, PI. X, fig. e. 



Con. pared All these hones, compared with the analogous ones in the 



skeleton of a full grown fox, appeared rather larger. That 

 of the metacarpus in particular was a little longer, without 

 being larger : but these differences were not snfheient to 

 establish a difference of species. On the other hand the 

 different foxes, as the corsac, the isatis, or jackal, the Cape 

 fox, c. maome'as, and the two American foxes, c. Virginia' 



nits, 



v.;Ui i hose of 

 the common 



