MONOGRAPH 
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PLEISTOCENE PERIOD. 
Order—CARNIVORA. 
Famiry—CANIDA. 
Genus—CAaAnlis. 
I. HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION. 
Av the commencement of a previous memoir dealing with the Pleistocene * bears 
reference was made to the difficulty which the study of those animals presented 
owing to the practical impossibility of coming to a satisfactory conclusion with 
regard to the mutual relationship of the various species and varieties. That diffi- 
culty presents itself in perhaps an even more marked form in the case of the Camide. 
The earliest reference to the existence of fossil Canidz is Hsper’s® account 
(1774) of the finding of bones in the cave at Gailenreuth which he recognised as 
those of wolf. Rosenmiiller * (1794), in a pamphlet written in Latim and dealing 
principally with the fossil bears, stated that bones of dogs and foxes, as well as of 
wolves, had been found in caves, but considered that the bones of foxes were intro- 
1 The terms “‘ Pleistocene”? and “ Prehistoric” are used in the following pages in the sense as 
defined by Dawkins and Sanford, ‘Monograph of the British Pleistocene Mammalia,’ vol. i, p. 7. 
2 « Ausfiithrliche Nachricht—Zoolithen Bayreuth.’ 
3 *Quzdam de Ossibus fossilibus animalis,’ Leipzig, p. 27. 
