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broad horizontal surface is traversed by two low 

 ridges, the lower molars being similarly modified. 



Fig. 3G. — Badger's upper Jaw, left side, showing the great development 

 of the Tubercular Molar. 



This dentition is evidently adapted for an admix- 

 ture of vegetable with animal food ; and the badger 

 is said to live on roots, fruit, and honey, with 

 small birds and frogs. It is remarkable, however, 

 that the hinge-like articulation we have noticed in 

 the tiger, is so much more perfect in the badger, 

 that the condyle is retained in the glenoid cavity, 

 after the soft parts have been removed by macera- 

 tion. 



The cranial ridge is not seen in the young 

 badger ; the lower jaw is easily disarticulated, 

 and the sutures of the skull are visible : but in 

 the adult animal, the ridge receives an extraor- 

 dinary development for the attachment of the 

 temporal muscles ; the sutures disappear, and the 

 margins of the glenoid cavity are so extended as 

 to enclose the transverse condyle to a degree that 

 renders dislocation impossible. It would appear, 

 however, that these provisions are made rather 

 for defensive than for aggressive purposes. It 



