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noted, between the Lion and Tiger, Felis spelma is more leonine 
in character than the recent Lion, and more divergent from the 
j tigrine form. Were the three animals placed in serial order, 
I Felis leo would occupy the middle place, the points of difference 
S between Lion and Tiger being exaggerated in Felis spelcea, 
! While it is undoubtedly true that the animal was on the whole 
larger and stronger than the existing Lion, some individuals 
I were even smaller than the average Lions of the present day. 
. There is 4ot one solitary character by which the animal can be 
I distinguished from the living Lion ; its specific identity, there- 
; fore, with the latter animal must be admitted. And thus we 
' are compelled to hold the belief that the Cave Lion, which 
I preyed upon the Mammoth, woolly Ehinoceros, and Musk-sheep 
\ in Grreat Britain, is a mere geographical variety of the great 
I carnivore that is found alike in the tropical parts of Asia and 
I throughout the whole of Africa. 
|i We will now pass on to the consideration of its range in 
’ Britain. It has not yet been found in Scotland, Northumber- 
land, Cumberland, or Westmoreland. In the North Biding of 
Yorkshire its teeth were obtained from the bone cave of Kirby 
I Moorside, along with the remains of the Cave Hysena and Wolf, 
j Two canines, a metacarpal, and a calcaneum were found in 
; the Hysena-den of Kirkdale, along with relics of the leptorhine 
Bhinoceros of Owen, the Mammoth, Bison, Beindeer, and others. 
I In the river deposit of Bielbecks, in the same county, a very 
fine series of remains of Bear, Bison, Wolf, and Cave Lion were 
I disinterred by the Bev. W. Vernon; those of the latter consist- 
I ing of a fragment of maxillary, both rami of the lower jaw, the 
: ulna, radius, femur, and metatarsals, all of which belonged to 
i one individual. The numerous caves in the mountain limestone 
of Lancashire and Derbyshire, strange to say, have not furnished 
a single fragment that can be attributed to the Lion, although 
they have been diligently explored at various times ; nor in 
the Midland Counties has the animal been discovered as far 
south as the meridian of Oxford. 
In the Eastern Counties it is very rare. The post-glacial 
gravels of Barnwell have yielded a lower jaw that is preserved 
in the natural history collection in Cambridge, and a femur that 
is now in the British Museum. In Suffolk its remains have 
been found in a bed of gravel at Ipswich, along with those of 
the Boe-deer, Bison, Irish Elk, tichorhine Bhinoceros, grizzly 
Bear, and others. In North Essex, the energetic collector Mr. 
John Brown, of Stanway, obtained a humerus from Clacton, as 
well as other remains, quoted by Professor Owen, from Walton. 
The river deposits of the great valley of the Thames have fur- 
nished its remains in comparative abundance. Its teeth occur 
at Hurley Bottom in Berkshire, along with bones of the ticho- 
