ANCESTRAL DESCENT. 



9 



Figs. 7 and 8 are the right and left half of 

 the lower jaw of a Mummy Cat (/''. manicu- 

 lata) and a Wild Cat {F. cat us, present time), 

 which are given for comparison. 



Fig. 8. Nat. size. 



VI. Skulls (8) found in the caverns of Engis and 

 Ingihoul, province of Liege, in the possession 

 of M. JuLiEN Fea[P0nt, Professor of Palaeonto- 

 logy in the University of Liege. See figs. 9 

 and 10 (pp. 12, 13), two of the above. 



Dr. ScHMERLiNG, from the larger size of some of the 

 bones, concluded that there were two species, and 

 divided them into (1) Felis catus magna, (2) Felis 

 catus miniita ; but Owen considered that this differ- 

 ence in size did not vary from the standard of the 

 existing Wild Cat more than would be due to age 

 and sex. 



Professor Boyd Dawkins and Mr. Ayshfokd San- 

 ford ("Brit. Pleist. Mamm.," Palaeontogr. Society's 

 Trans., 1872-73), however, contend that the larger 

 bones found in the Li^ge caverns and those from the 

 Bleadon Cave belong to a larger animal than Felis 

 catus, and they come to the conclusion that a species 

 of Wild Cat, very closely allied to Felis caffer, lived 

 in Northern Belgium and France in the Pleistocene 



