. An introduction to the study of mammals living and extinct. Mammals. HYJENW^ 543 specialised form. The Spotted Hysena is a larger and bolder animal than the Striped species, hunting in packs, and uttering very frequently its unearthly cry. The coloration consists of dark brown spots on a yellowish ground. It was formerly very common at the Cape. Remains of a large race of this species are exceedingly common in the cavern-deposits of Europe, where they were first described under the name of Hyaena spelcm ; teeth have also been met with in the Norfolk Forest-bed, and in cavern-deposits in Madr
. An introduction to the study of mammals living and extinct. Mammals. HYJENW^ 543 specialised form. The Spotted Hysena is a larger and bolder animal than the Striped species, hunting in packs, and uttering very frequently its unearthly cry. The coloration consists of dark brown spots on a yellowish ground. It was formerly very common at the Cape. Remains of a large race of this species are exceedingly common in the cavern-deposits of Europe, where they were first described under the name of Hyaena spelcm ; teeth have also been met with in the Norfolk Forest-bed, and in cavern-deposits in Madras—the latter locality being exceedingly interesting from a distributional point of view. In addition to the remains of existing species, to which refer-. ^^p5=-^ Fig. 247.—The Spotted HyaBna (Hycena crocuta). ence has been already made, there were numerous extinct forms of Hycma in the upper Tertiaries of Europe, from the horizon of the Lower Pliocene Pikermi beds of Greece upwards. In the Crocutine group H. colvini of the Pliocene of India (Fig. 248), and H. robusta of that of Italy, appear to have been ancestral forms allied to H. crocuta; the former being distinguished by the loss of the first upper pre- molar. H. eximia, of the Pikermi beds, is a more generalised form, in which the first lower premolar (lost in existing forms) is retained. In the typical group, H. arvernensis and H. perrieri, of the Upper Pliocene of the Continent, approximate to H. brunnea; although H. perrieri makes a farther step towards the Crocutine group by the loss of the inner cusp in the lower carnassial. The extinct Hycenic- a series of papers by Morrison Watson in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1877, 1878, 1879, and 1881, in wliicli references to previous authors on the subject will be Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perf
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