. The cat; an introduction to the study of backboned animals, especially mammals. Cats; Anatomy, Comparative. 518 THE CAT. [chap. XV. varying conditions of life, but which we know to ho sometimes very differently formed in different memhers of one and the same family. Yet we must accej^t their evidence or none. It is the only evidence which is largely available, nor will there be much danger of serious error in making use of it, if the caution here offered as to its defec- tive nature be duly borne in mind. Ii;!)ectivora. Crj-ptoprocta. Viverridffi. Didelplij-s. PalKouiclis. § 8. If
. The cat; an introduction to the study of backboned animals, especially mammals. Cats; Anatomy, Comparative. 518 THE CAT. [chap. XV. varying conditions of life, but which we know to ho sometimes very differently formed in different memhers of one and the same family. Yet we must accej^t their evidence or none. It is the only evidence which is largely available, nor will there be much danger of serious error in making use of it, if the caution here offered as to its defec- tive nature be duly borne in mind. Ii;!)ectivora. Crj-ptoprocta. Viverridffi. Didelplij-s. PalKouiclis. § 8. If WO can only conjecture with more or less probability what were the older mammalian ancestors of the cat, we are still less able to determine the line of its descent through non-manmialian ances- tors. The structure of the shoulder girdle of the Monotremes, may be held to point towards a reptilian origin of the Mammalia; but the position of the ankle-joint and the constant development in. 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 Mivart, St. George Jackson, 1827-1900. London, Murray
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