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THE CAT. 



[chap. XIII. 



penis is straight, wide, depressed and grooved. There are no 

 Cowper's glands, but there is a sahent prostate. 



Finally, we come to the cat's sub- order, the tEluroidea. Therein 

 the following characters (which we have already seen to exist in the 

 cat) exist universally, so far as the structure of its component species 

 is known. 



(1) The auditory bulla is much dilated, smooth, rounded, and 

 generally divided into two chambers by a septum. 



Fig. 108.— Skull and Dentition of Paradoxurus Crossii. 



(2) The bony meatus auditorius cxternus is short, and only 



produced in front, or else is imperfectly ossified below. 



(3) The paroccipital process is, as it were, flattened against the 



auditory bulla, to which it is much more closely applied 

 than it is in the Ci/iioidcd. 



(4) The mastoid is never salient, and often not to be distin- 



guished. 



