194 PLEISTOCENE MAMMALIA. 



It may be that in the long interval which elapsed between the Pleistocene and the 

 succeeding age, it had retreated from Northern and Central Europe, partly from the 

 competition with man, and partly from the operation of the same obscure causes which 

 banished the Spotted Hyaena and the Hippopotamus to Africa. 



It will be seen from the above table that the Wild Cat is the only British feline 

 which still lives, and the time is not far distant when it will become extinct in our 

 island. 



