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the lion, lioness, nor tiger, and still less to the leopard and small 
panther, as it is called ; and that if it must be referred to a living 
species, it can only be to the jaguar, or great spotted panther of 
South America. 
Among the bones of Gaylenreuth which had undergone a considera- 
ble change, and which were invested with the same tufous matter as 
the bones already mentioned, M. Cuvier found several belonging to 
the fox, or to some animal nearly allied to it : and these bones, he 
believes, are by no means rare in the caverns. 
In the same mass of tufa in which he found the preceding bones, 
resembling those of the fox, he found the remains of a smaller carni- 
vorous animal, which he thought were certainly the bones of a martin. 
The dorsal vertebra, thus found, appeared to agree with those of the 
zorilla, or the polecat of the Cape — an agreement particularly re- 
markable, since the bones of the hyena of the caverns also bear a 
strong resemblance to those of the spotted hyena of the Cape. 
From this concurrence, M. Cuvier had been almost led to think, 
that the analogues of the animals found in the caverns were perhaps 
to be found at the Cape ; but this notion was entirely set aside by- 
discovering that the fossil pelvis, found among these remains, more 
resembled that of the polecat of Europe. 
The fossil bones which M. Cuvier found in the caverns, possessing 
no characters distinguishing them from those of animals still living in 
the same countries where these remains are found, were those of the 
wolf or dog. But it is necessary to remark, that this occurs in a genus 
where the distinction of species, by separate bones, is almost impos- 
sible. Daubenton had already remarked the difficulty of distinguish- 
ing the skeleton of a wolf from that of the shepherd’s dog of the same 
size ; and M. Cuvier has only been able to remark, that in the wolf 
the triangular part of the forehead, behind the orbits, is a little nar- 
rower and flatter, the sagitto -occipital ridge longer and more raised, 
and the teeth, particularly the canine, a little larger in proportion — 
