1 88 The Rev. Mr. Buckland’s account of Fossil Teeth and 
The structure of these animals places them in an inter- 
mediate class between the cat and dog tribes ; not feeding, 
like the former, almost exclusively on living prey, but like 
the latter, being greedy also of putrid flesh and bones :* their 
love of putrid flesh induces them to follow armies, and dig 
up human bodies from the grave. They inhabit holes 
which they dig in the earth, and chasms of rocks ; are fierce, 
and of obstinate courage, attacking stronger quadrupeds than 
themselves, and even repelling lions. Their habit of digging 
human bodies from the grave, and dragging them to their 
den, and of accumulating around it the bones of all kinds of 
animals, is thus described by Busbequius, where he is speak- 
ing of the Turkish mode of burial in Anatolia, and their cus- 
tom of laying large stones upon their graves to protect them 
from the Hyasnas. “ Hyaena regionibus iis satis frequens ; 
sepulchra suffodit, extrahitque cadavera, portatque ad suam 
speluncam ; juxta quam videre est ingentem cumulum ossium 
humanorum ‘ veterinariorum’-f et reliquorum omne genus 
animalium.” (Busbeq. Epist. 1. Leg. Turc.) Brown, also, in 
his Travels to Darfur, describes the Hyaenas’ manner of tak- 
ing off' their prey in the following words : — “ they come in 
herds of six, eight, and often more, into the villages at night, 
and carry off with them whatever they are able to master ; 
they will kill dogs and asses even within the enclosure of 
houses, and fail not to assemble wherever a dead camel or 
* It is quite impossible to mistake the jaw of any species of hyaena for that of the 
wolf or tiger kind ; the latter having three molar teeth only in the lower jaw, and 
the former seven ; whilst all the hyaena tribe have four. (See Plate XVIII. fig. i, 2,3.) 
f Veterinam bestiam jumentum Cato appellavit a vehendo : (quasi veheterinus 
vel veterinus.) Pomp. Fest. 
