. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. SKULL OF PHO-viVERRA. (AJtei Gaudi y.) Tlic roof of Ilie skull IB supposed to 1)6 cut awny to show the form of the br; as deduced from a natural east of the interior of the skull. case in these forms was very small, and a cast of M. Gaudry,* shows that the brain must have had We thus see that a considerable number of the existing genera of Garnivora took their origin in tlie Eocene epoch, where they co-existed with creatures curiously intermediate between the various existing families, and with others intermediate between Camivoia and Mars
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. SKULL OF PHO-viVERRA. (AJtei Gaudi y.) Tlic roof of Ilie skull IB supposed to 1)6 cut awny to show the form of the br; as deduced from a natural east of the interior of the skull. case in these forms was very small, and a cast of M. Gaudry,* shows that the brain must have had We thus see that a considerable number of the existing genera of Garnivora took their origin in tlie Eocene epoch, where they co-existed with creatures curiously intermediate between the various existing families, and with others intermediate between Camivoia and Marsupials. In tin- rocks of the Secondary period (chalk, oolite, lias, &c.), none of the Carnivorn have as yet appeared, and only Miii- supial remains are found. so that, of the wliole grinding scries, the first largest Now we have seen that the rule among existing Carnivora is for the last molar to be a small tooth, and for the largest of the set to be the fourth premolar in the upper jaw, and the tust molar in the lower jaw. On the other hand, the regular increase in size is very chaiacteristic of the flesh-eating Marsupials, imongst which the Thylacine, or so-calle;i Tasmanian Wolf, shows a considerable re- semblance, as to its teeth, to Hymiodmi and Pldodon, Palaonictis and Proviverra aro more nearly allied to the Opossums and to the Dasyure, or Tasmanian Devil. The brain- the interior of the skull of Proviverra, figured by an extremely low chai' APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VI. (VfVERRID.^, CIVET FAMILY.) THE C' Although in all essential respects a true Viven-ine, the Cynogale, or Mam- palon, differs very considerably in external appearance from all the mem- bers of the family we have hitherto considered. It has none of a Civet's lithe and slender appearance, but is stoiit and plump. Its tail is very short, not more thiui six inches long, or a quarter the length of the head and body, which together attain a length of aboiit two- feet. The snout is long and p
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