1835.] Sub -Himalayan Fossils. 569 



The upper part of the femur, fig. 21, must have belonged to a 

 smaller animal ; it is chiefly remarkable for the lowness of its tro- 

 chanter major. 



Carnivora. — PL XLVI. 



Amongst our fossil remains of this family, the hyena is the most 

 abundant. Of other genera, we have one fragment of a head, which 

 even the assistance of Cuvier has not enabled us to name with cer- 

 tainty. We have also a molar indubitably belonging to an animal of 

 the genus canis. 



Of the hyena, there appear to be two varieties : figs. 22 and 23, 

 may be considered the type of one ; of the other I will say nothing, as 

 the Society will shortly be in possession of specimens of it, now in the 

 collection of Colonel Colvin. 



The skull represented by figs. 22 and 23, is the most perfect fossil 

 we have yet been so fortunate as to meet with. It appears to have 

 been enclosed in the stratum, with the lower jaw in position, but not 

 quite closed. The only injuries which it has sustained are the loss 

 of its left zygomatic arch, a slight displacement of the half of the 

 lower jaw, of which the canine tooth is broken off near its base, and 

 the mutilation of the occiput, which is perhaps the greatest loss of all. 



This skull must have belonged to a full-sized animal, as some of 

 the molars are worn flat at the tops : it is smaller then Cuvier's fossil 

 hyena, and somewhat different, though having a much nearer re- 

 semblance to it than to the existing hyena of the country of which 

 I have given the skull, figs. 24 and 25, "With reference to the latter 

 skull, I have to remark, that it was brought from the lower hills in 

 this neighbourhood, and said to belong to the charakh - .a*. 

 or hyena ; it however wants the small first molar of the upper jaw : 

 and in the disposition of the molar teeth of the same jaw, slightly 

 differs from another less perfect skull of a hyena, with which it has 

 been compared. Whether or not these differences may be attributable 

 to age (for the individual was evidently a very old one), or to acci- 

 dent, I cannot determine. 



Fig. 26, is the fifth, and part of the fourth left upper molar of a ca- 

 nine animal. 



Ruminantia—Pl. XLVH. XLVII1. 



Of this order we possess a great diversity of species, of which 

 some individuals appear to have been of gigantic dimensions, as may 

 be judged from the specimens which I have selected to illustrate this 

 point. 



Figs. 40, 41, and 42, are different views of a skull of an animal 

 allied to the antelope ; the length and narrowness of the face, the 



