. A history of British fossil mammals, and birds . Young Ursus spekeus. Keufs Hole. MELES TAXUS. 109 CARNIVORA. URSIDJE. Fk. ..7. Nat. size, fossil, Kents Hole. MELES TAXUS. Badoer. Meles vulgaris fossil is,Blaireau fossile. H. VON Meyer, Palaeologica, 1832, p. , Ossem. Foss. de Liege, toni. i. p. Whilst some of the larger species of Bear haveyielded to the influence of the last general physicalchanges which the surface of the earth has undergone,and the entire genus has been blotted out of the indigenousFauna of Great Britain by the hostility of man, a compa-ratively weak a
. A history of British fossil mammals, and birds . Young Ursus spekeus. Keufs Hole. MELES TAXUS. 109 CARNIVORA. URSIDJE. Fk. ..7. Nat. size, fossil, Kents Hole. MELES TAXUS. Badoer. Meles vulgaris fossil is,Blaireau fossile. H. VON Meyer, Palaeologica, 1832, p. , Ossem. Foss. de Liege, toni. i. p. Whilst some of the larger species of Bear haveyielded to the influence of the last general physicalchanges which the surface of the earth has undergone,and the entire genus has been blotted out of the indigenousFauna of Great Britain by the hostility of man, a compa-ratively weak and diminutive species of the Ursine familyhas survived both causes of extirpation. The remainsof a Badger, not distinguishable from the existing Britishspecies, have been discovered in the caves at Torquay andBerry Head, Devonshire, in juxtaposition with the bones ofthe extinct Mammalia, and manifesting precisely the samemineral condition, so that no reasonable doubt can be enter-tained of their equal antiquity with the Spelaean Bear,Hysena, and Tiger. Bones of the Badger, as might be ex-pected from its habits of burrowing
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