EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 



Historical Evidence — England. 



Ancient British Period. — Dio Nicaeus, speaking 

 of the inhabitants of the northern parts of this 

 island, tells us they were a fierce and barbarous 



CRANIUM OP WOLF. UPPEK SUUPACE. (| SAT. SIZE.) 



people, who tilled no ground, but lived upon the 

 depredations they committed in the southern dis- 

 tricts or upon the food they procured by hunting. 

 Strabo also says (lib. iv.) that the dogs bred in 

 Britain were highly esteemed upon the Continent on 

 account ol their excellent qualities for hunting, and 

 these qualities, he seems to hint, were natural to 



