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(11) Tlie molars are cutting or tuberculate. 



(12) There is a milk dentition. 



(13) The stomach is simple. 



(14) The caecum is never very large. 



(15) There is never more than an imperfect clavicle. 



(16) The atlas has two large transverse processes. 



(17) The glenoid cavity and condyle are elongated transversely. 



(18) The zygoma arches very widely outwards and much upwards. 



(19) There are no vesiculse seminales. 



(20) The uterus is two-horned. 



(21) The placenta is deciduate. 



(22) It is almost always zonary. 



§ 21. The order Carnkora consists of a variety of genera forming 



Fig. 191.— Skull of the Tanda {Ailuns fxdocm). 



nine different families, which arc grouped in throe sets or sub-ordeks. 

 One of these sub-orders is named Cynoidea, and it contains only 

 the family of dogs, wolves, jackals, and foxes— the family Canidcp. 

 The second sub-order is called Arctoide.\, and it embraces the 

 family of Bears, Ursuke, and the family of Racoons, Coati-mondis, 

 Kinkajous, with the genus Bassaris—a family called Procyonidcc. 



