. The cat; an introduction to the study of backboned animals, especially mammals. Cats; Anatomy, Comparative. 482 TBE CAT. [chap. XIII. the large, arboreal, and in many respects exceptional Viverrlne—the Binturong (Arctitis). The Viverridce have a rather elongated head and muzzle, and they have almost always two tubercular molars in the upper jaw and one in the lower. Of true molars (as distinguished from premolars) there are two above and two below on each side of each jaw. The teeth may vary in shape, from largely sectorial—though never as in the cats—to mainly tubercular. The caecum is smal
. The cat; an introduction to the study of backboned animals, especially mammals. Cats; Anatomy, Comparative. 482 TBE CAT. [chap. XIII. the large, arboreal, and in many respects exceptional Viverrlne—the Binturong (Arctitis). The Viverridce have a rather elongated head and muzzle, and they have almost always two tubercular molars in the upper jaw and one in the lower. Of true molars (as distinguished from premolars) there are two above and two below on each side of each jaw. The teeth may vary in shape, from largely sectorial—though never as in the cats—to mainly tubercular. The caecum is small and simple, or may be, by very rare exception, absent. Cowper's glands are present, and the prostate gland is salient and lobed. The penis may be devoid of any bone, or if there is one it is small and irregular in shape. Often, as in the civet, there are largely developed scent-glands. In the cranial characters the whole of the Viverrines show great ccr a/m. Fig. 201.—The Ichneitmon (Ilcrpcstcs ichneumoti) {Flower). a. Tostcrior end of ali-siilicnoid canal. a'. Its anterior tcrniination. am. Meatus anditorius extenms. c. Condyloid foramen. car. Carotid foramen. e. Eustnoliian oaiial. /. Foramen lacerum nosterius. 111. Mastoid. 0. Foramen ovale. J). l'ar-oefii>ital i)rouess. unifomiity. There is generally a distinct all-sphenoid canal. The auditory bulla is large, smooth and rounded, and consists of two portions separated by a nearly complete septum, much as in the cat, except that the chamber which corresponds with the inner chamber of the cat's bulla, is posterior in situation. The carotid canal is larger than in the cat, and may run through a canal in the petrosal (as in Ifcrpestcfi), or may be merely represented by a groove on the inner side of the auditory bulla. In Ilcrpcsfcs and allied forms, the artery, after emerging, runs along for a short distance before re-entering the cranium. The par-occipital process is widened, spread out, and closely applied to the
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