. On the anatomy of vertebrates [electronic resource] . ss of the maxillary, and its ex-tension backward to the same transverse line as that which thehinder ends of the nasals reach. In the Tiger the nasal bones arerelatively longer and extend further back than the nasal processesof the maxillaries, which are, as it were, truncated. The concavityof the frontal platform between the deflected postorbital processesis narrower than in the Lion ; the suborbital foramina are smaller. The carnivorous character of the skull, fig. 341, as exemplifiedby the sagittal, 7, and occipital, 3, crests, by the
. On the anatomy of vertebrates [electronic resource] . ss of the maxillary, and its ex-tension backward to the same transverse line as that which thehinder ends of the nasals reach. In the Tiger the nasal bones arerelatively longer and extend further back than the nasal processesof the maxillaries, which are, as it were, truncated. The concavityof the frontal platform between the deflected postorbital processesis narrower than in the Lion ; the suborbital foramina are smaller. The carnivorous character of the skull, fig. 341, as exemplifiedby the sagittal, 7, and occipital, 3, crests, by the strength andexpanse of the zygomatic arches, 27, by the depth and shortnessof the jaws, by the height and breadth of the coronoid processes,and by the extent of the muscular fossa) of the lower jaw, reachesits maximum in the skull of the old males of both these largeFelines. The triangular occipital region is remarkable for thedepth and boldness of the sculpturing of its outer conjoined paroccipital, 4, and mastoid, 8, form a broad and 341. Skull of Lion. thick capsular support for the back part of the acoustic pterygoid processes are imperforate. A well-marked grooveextends on each side of the bony palate from the posterior to theanterior palatine foramina. The premaxillaries, 22, are compa-ratively short, and one half of the lateral border of the nasals, 15,directly articulates with the maxillaries, 21. The bony tentorium extends above the petrosal to the ridgeover-hanging the Grasserian fossa : the petrosal is short, its apex isneither notched nor perforated : the cerebellar pit is very shallow. 506 ANATOMY OF VERTEBRATES. The sella turcica is deep, and well defined by botli the anteriorand posterior clinoids. The rhinencephalic fossa is relativelylarger than in most Carnivora, and is defined by a well-markedangle of the inner table of the skull from the prosencephaliccompartment: the olfactory chamber extends backward bothabove and below the rhinenceph
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