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Sussex. — Bracklesham (Brit. Mus. and Mus. Chichester) ; Peven- 



sey* (" Sussex Archasol. Coll." xxiv. p. i<5o.) 

 Wiltshire. — Vale of Kennet (" Sussex Archseol." torn. cit.). 

 Yobkshike. — Bielbecks (Mus. York ; " Phil. Mag." vol. vi. p. 225) ; 



Earkdalo (Brit. Mus., Mus. Geol. Soc. and Koy. Coll. Surg ; 



Buckland, "Trans. Eoy. Soc." 1822; Clift, id. 1823, p. 90). 



We have here a dozen counties in different parts 

 of England and Wales, north, south, east, and west, 

 which show clearly from their position how very gene- 

 rally distributed the Wolf must formerly have been. 



The geological record, however, is but an im- 

 perfect one in showing the distribution of the Wolf 

 in bygone times, for to the localities above mentioned 

 might be added numerous others in which we know 

 from history that this animal formerly abounded. 

 The forest of Riddlesdale in Northumberland ;~the 

 great forests of Blackburnshire and Bowland in 

 Lancashire ; Richmond Forest, Yorkshire ; Sherwood 

 Forest, Nottinghamshire ; Savernake Forest, Wilts ; 

 the New Forest ; the forests of Bere and Irwell, and 

 many others, are on record as former strongholds of 

 these ferocious animals. To these we shall have 

 occasion to refer later when dealing with the 

 historical evidence. 



Unlike other extinct British animals, the Wolf 

 apparently has not deteriorated in size, for the fossil 

 bones which have been discovered, as above men- 

 tioned, are not larger, nor in any way to be dis- 

 tinguished from those of European wolves of the 

 present day. 



* In 1 85 1 many skulls of Wolves were taken out of a disused 

 mediaeval well at Pevensey Castle. 



