. Dogs, jackals, wolves, and foxes: a monograph of the Canidae. With woodcuts, and 45 coloured plates drawn from nature by Keulemans and hand-coloured. Canidae. IXTEODUCTIOX. XXV In another specimen of C. cancrivorus there was no third lower molar, Ijut a rosette made up of five very small denticles in its place (fig. 11, p. xxiv). A third upper molar has also been found in C. cancrivorus, and Professor Flower, , has observed a second upper molar in a specimen of Tdicyon venaticus. In Domestic Dogs abnormalities are more frequent, especially in the form known as the Japanese Pag, in w
. Dogs, jackals, wolves, and foxes: a monograph of the Canidae. With woodcuts, and 45 coloured plates drawn from nature by Keulemans and hand-coloured. Canidae. IXTEODUCTIOX. XXV In another specimen of C. cancrivorus there was no third lower molar, Ijut a rosette made up of five very small denticles in its place (fig. 11, p. xxiv). A third upper molar has also been found in C. cancrivorus, and Professor Flower, , has observed a second upper molar in a specimen of Tdicyon venaticus. In Domestic Dogs abnormalities are more frequent, especially in the form known as the Japanese Pag, in which the teeth may be extraordi- narily defective, as will be noted when we come to treat of the domestic Dog.' Almost always the fourth upper premolar and the first lower molar are larger than the others, with sharp cutting-blades which play one against the other, on which account they are otten spoken of as the " sectorial " or " carnassial " teeth. In Otocijon, however, they hardly differ in this respect from those adjacent to them. Taking the teeth of Fig. /CC iC^ t u^/'t^^ Side view of the teeth of a Wolf. />/<"//£- r-T/O i^/' </0^/OC/lC'M .' j such a form as the Dingo or the Wolf as a type of the Caiiida, we find, if we compare it with the teeth of one of the Felklce, or Cats, that the incisors arc larger relatively both above and below. The four median e. 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 R. H. Porter
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