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between eyes, suffused with cream-buff, so that this region is 

 paler than any other part of the animal ; muzzle and cheek to 

 and surrounding eye in a stripe about 10 mm. wide, dark brown ; 

 claws light horn-colour. 



SJcull. — The skull is larger and more massive than in any of 

 the other European Mitsfelidse, its general form somewhat inter- 

 mediate between that of Melesi and Maries. Dorsal profile with 

 slight anterior concavity over middle of short nasals, then rather 



Fig. S8. 

 Gido gulo. Kediiced. 



strongly convex to bi-egmal region, behind which it is straight 

 and nearly horizontal to distinctly overhanging lambda. Brain- 

 case elongate-ovate in outline when viewed from above, about 

 l\ times as wide as deep, the sagittal crest moderately developed 

 in old individuals and joining rather low lambdoid crests in a 

 noticeably backward projecting point, the entire occipital region 

 sufficiently overhanging to conceal condyles when viewed from 

 above. Floor of brain-case with no special peculiarities, the 

 basioccipital essentially as in Maries martes but relatively wider. 



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