. A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of Geology and Palæontology in the British Museum (Natural History) .. . Table-case,No. 2, Pier-case, No. 3. Fig. 3.—Upper and outer aspects of the right ramus of the mandible of ViverraHastiiigiiK (Davies); Upper Eocene, Hordwell, Hampshire. of the canine teeth, and alsofor its wide geographical dis-tribution. These remains Lavebeen met with in Kents Cavern,Torquay, in Ores well CragCaves. Derbyshire, in the Nor-folk Forest-bed, in the MioceneTertiary deposits of Eppelsheimin Germany, the Auvergne inFrance, the Val dArno inItaly, the

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. A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of Geology and Palæontology in the British Museum (Natural History) .. . Table-case,No. 2, Pier-case, No. 3. Fig. 3.—Upper and outer aspects of the right ramus of the mandible of ViverraHastiiigiiK (Davies); Upper Eocene, Hordwell, Hampshire. of the canine teeth, and alsofor its wide geographical dis-tribution. These remains Lavebeen met with in Kents Cavern,Torquay, in Ores well CragCaves. Derbyshire, in the Nor-folk Forest-bed, in the MioceneTertiary deposits of Eppelsheimin Germany, the Auvergne inFrance, the Val dArno inItaly, the Pampas deposits andthe bone-caves of SouthAmerica, and the Lower Plio-cene freshwater sandstones ofthe Siwalik Hills in India. The Machcerodus is now quiteextinct. Remains of Hycena eximiafrom Samos and Pikermi, ofHycenudon, Pterodon, etc., fromthe Lower Tertiaries of France, are placed in these cases. Herealso are exhibited various early representatives of tbe Carnivora,. Fig. 4.—Lateral aspect of skull of tbeGreat Sabre-toothed Tiger. Machcero-dus neogwas (Lund); from the NewerTertiary deposits^of South America.

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