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STRUCTUlv'K AND ADAPTATION oF TKimi 



Fig. ZK .Skull of Badger. 



chooses the most soHtary woods for its residence, 

 and is quiet and inoffensive in its manners.; but 



when attacked, it defends 

 itself with a courage and 

 resolution which few 

 dogs of double its size 

 can overcome. It bites 

 angrily, and holds on 

 with great tenacity, 

 which it is the better 

 enabled to do from the 

 peculiar organization to 

 which we have referred. 

 We will now turn our 



Fig. 2,%.— Skull of Badger, showing attention to SOme of 

 cranial ridge. ^^^^^ animals in which 



the molar teeth attain their greatest perfec- 

 tion. 



Among these, the ruminants, although charac- 

 terized by great deficiencies in the other teeth, 

 occupy a conspicuous place. On comparing the 

 skull of the sheep with that of the tiger, we see 

 evident marks of inferiority in the small compara- 



FiG. 39. — Skull of Sheep, showing large projwrlionale size of the bones 

 of the face, and small development of the zygoma. 



