DISCOVERED AT KIRKDALE, IN YORKSHIRE. 
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what they were: the instant I saw them I was enchanted to find the 
entire under jaw and entire radius and ulna of a very old and large 
hyaena, supplying the only link that was deficient to complete the 
evidence I wanted to establish the hyaena’s den at Kirkdale. These 
bones are in the highest possible state of preservation; the jaw is 
quite entire, and from an animal so old that it had lost more than half 
its teeth, and the remainder are ground almost to the stumps, and have 
their surface polished like a burnishing stone. (See Plate XII.) 
The bones of the arm also (see Plate XIII. fig. 1, 2 ) are equally per¬ 
fect with the jaw. There are not the slightest marks of fracture on 
any of them like those on the bones at Kirkdale; and this is con¬ 
sistent with the different circumstances of this individual from those 
in the cave; the hyaena at Lawford appears from its position in the 
diluvial clay to have been one that perished by the inundation that 
extirpated the race, as well as the elephant, rhinoceros, and other 
tribes that lie buried with it; and, consequently, as it could have had 
no survivors to devour its bones, we should on this hypothesis expect 
to find them entire, as they are actually found in the specimens before 
us. (See Plate XII. and Plate XIII. fig. 1 , 2 .) With them were found 
some entire small bones of the foot apparently of the same individual 
hyaena, and also the humerus of a bird in size and shape nearly resem¬ 
bling that of a goose (see Plate XIII. fig. 9 , 10), and in the same state of 
high preservation with the hyaena and rhinoceros bones amidst which 
it lay. This is the first example within my knowledge of the bones 
of birds being noticed in the diluvium of England. 
It was stated, when speaking of the den at Kirkdale, that the 
bones of the hyaenas are as much broken to pieces as those of the 
animals that formed their prey; and hence we must infer, that the 
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