. Science from an easy chair; a second series. Science; Natural history. 152 A STRANGE EXTINCT BEAST in September, 1910) she has given the name " Myotragui balearicus" I must ask the reader now to look at the figures here given (Figs. 21 and 22) of the skull and the lower jaw of a goat, The lower jaw might (except for size) pass for that of a sheep, ox, antelope or deer. They are all alike. There are on each side six grinding cheek teeth (molars), and then as we pass to the front we find a long, toothless gap until we come to the middle line where the two halves of the jaw Fi
. Science from an easy chair; a second series. Science; Natural history. 152 A STRANGE EXTINCT BEAST in September, 1910) she has given the name " Myotragui balearicus" I must ask the reader now to look at the figures here given (Figs. 21 and 22) of the skull and the lower jaw of a goat, The lower jaw might (except for size) pass for that of a sheep, ox, antelope or deer. They are all alike. There are on each side six grinding cheek teeth (molars), and then as we pass to the front we find a long, toothless gap until we come to the middle line where the two halves of the jaw Fig. 23.— Side view of the skull of a typical " rodent " mammal, the Coypu raf(Myocastor coypus) from South America, inc. s. Upper incisor. jW. ». Lower incisor. j«.s., »>.«. Upper and lower molars, grinders or cheek-teeth. There we see a little "semicircular group of eight chisel-like teeth, which work against the toothless pad of the upper jaw opposed to them and are the instruments by which these animals, with an upward jerk of the head, " crop " the grass and other herbage on which they feed, to be after- wards triturated by the grinding cheek teeth. A vast series of living and of fossil animals, called the Ruminants —including the giraffes, the antler-bearing forms called. 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 perfectly resemble the original Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, 1847-1929. London, Methuen
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