SIWALIK AND NARBADA CARNIVORA. 
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The best known of these species may be classed as follows, mainly after Prof. 
Gaudry, vis. : — 
m.l 
pm. 1 
cusp 
-v 
talon 
m.2 
II. crocuta (inner cusp absent in m m. 4) 
small 
absent 
absent 
small 
absent 
H. perrieri 
,, 
„ 
„ 
„ 
„ 
II. eximia (tubercle of P m - 4 very small) 
large 
present 
„ 
large 
„ 
II. brevirostris 
„ 
• p ■ 
,, 
„ 
,, 
II. graeca (inner cusp present in mm . 4) 
very large 
present 
„ 
„ 
present 
11 . brunnea (inner cusp of mTi small) 
large 
absent 
present 
large 
absent 
H. arvernensis (inner cusp of m . 1 large) . 
very large 
„ 
„ 
very large 
II. striata ,, ,, ,, ,, 
,, 
,, 
,, 
„ 
„ 
H. cliceretis (premolars elongated) 
' P 
present 
„ 
„ 
, ? 
Species 1 : Hyaena pelina, Bose. 
Syn. II. sivalensis, Falc. and Caut., in part. (?) II. sinensis , Owen. 
History of Suvalik hycenas . — Before describing the remains assigned to the 
present species, it will be -well to give a brief resume of the previous history of 
Siwalik hyaenas. The earliest notice of the remains of hyaenas from the Siwaliks, 
appears to be one in 1835, by the late Gen. (then Lieut.) Sir W. E. Baker, 1 in 
which a skull with the mandible attached (now in the Science and Art Museum, 
Dublin) is described and figured. No specific name was assigned to the specimen, 
which was stated to be more nearly allied to the fossil hyaena of Europe (II. 
crocuta ), than to the existing Indian species. It was incidentally mentioned that 
other Siwalik specimens discovered by Colonel Colvin (now in the Indian Museum) 
probably indicated a second species. In 1847, Dr. Falconer, in a letter to De 
Blainville, 2 made mention of two species of Siwalik hyaenas. In 1859, two 
crania of Siwalik hyaenas (those discovered by Colonel Colvin), then in the col- 
lection of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, were catalogued by Dr. Falconer, 3 with- 
out the affix of any specific name. In the “Palaeontological Memoirs” (1868) 
descriptions of three of the unpublished plates (K.L.M.) of the “ Fauna Antiqua 
Sivalensis,” containing figures of the remains of Siwalik hyaenas in the British 
Museum, are given. It happened, however, by mistake, that the first of these 
plates (K), containing figures of the skulls, was lettered Felis cristata. The 
other two plates were lettered ffycena sivalensis , Falc. and Caut., but in the 
description of the first (L) it is observed 4 “ this species, however, is no doubt 
that designated Ilycena sivalensis by Messrs. Baker aiid Durand in the brief 
description given by them in the “Journal of the Asiatic Society” for October, 
1835, Vol. IV, p. 569.” In regard to that observation, it has been already observed 
that the author of that paper (Sir W. E. Baker alone), did not assign any specific 
name to his specimen. The name Hycena sivalensis , if ever given at all by 
Falconer and Cautley, must have only existed in manuscript notes, from which 
1 “ Journ. Asiat. Soc., Beng.,” vol. IV, p. 569, pi. XLVII, figs 22-3. 
2 “ Pal. Mem.” vol. I, p. XXI. 3 ibid. p. 343. 4 Ibid. pp>i 548-9. 
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