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The fossil remains of hyenas, it appears, have been found, not only 
in the same caverns which contain the bones of bears, but in the same 
alluvial beds in which are found the remains of elephants. 
Their remains are found in the cavern of Gaylenreuth. In the ele- 
gant work of Esper, already referred to, an atlas, PI. III. Fig. 1, is 
attributed by him to this animal, which, however, appears to have be- 
longed to the bear ; and, on the other hand, two teeth, PI. X. Fig. c, 
d, which are supposed to have belonged to the lion, are certainly those 
of the hyena. Collini, Memoires de /’ Academie de Manheim, Tome 
V. PI. ii. has represented the skull and half of a lower jaw, found 
near the surface of one of the mountains which border the valley in 
which is situated the village of Eichstsedt. This skull he describes as 
having belonged to some unknown species of phoca ; but from the 
number and figure of the teeth, as well as from the remarkable eleva- 
tion of the sagitto -occipital crista, no doubt can exist of its being the 
skull of the hyena. Kundman also figures a tooth, which he took 
himself from the rock in the cavern of Bauman, and which he sup- 
poses to be that of a calf, but which is undoubtedly that of a hyena. 
M. Cuvier has also received the remains of this animal from the valley 
of Neckar, near to Canstadt, so famous for the quantity of elephantine 
remains which are there found. 
Thus it appears that the fossil remains of the hyena have been 
found in four different parts of Germany. In France also, at 
Fouvent, near Gray, in the department of Doubs, the remains of this 
animal have been found ; and, as at Canstadt, mixed with the bones 
of elephants and horses. 
The fossil bones of Canstadt were first found in the year IfOO, and 
considerable researches made for them by order of the then reigning 
Duke of Wirtemberg. A dissertation was also written on them*, in 
which, however, but little information is afforded ; the author, Dr. 
David Spleiss, having chiefly engaged himself in determining, whether 
these fossils were really the remains of animals, or merely the sports 
* Oedipus Osteolithologicus. 
