PUTORIUS VULGARIS. T15 
Dr. Schmerling has figured the entire skull of a fossil 
Pole-cat from one of the caves in Belgium, and, like that 
from Berry Head, it is identical with the existing Putorius 
eulgaris. 
In the subjoined cuts of the teeth of the last-cited fossil, 
é indicates the alveoli of the three incisors of the upper jaw ; 
/ the socket of the great laniary or canine tooth ; p m the 
teeth included between the dotted lines, and called pre- 
molars, the largest being the ‘carnassi¢re’ of the French 
Anatomists, or the ‘ sectorial tooth’; m is the true molar, 
or tubercular tooth, the only one of that kind developed in 
the present family of Carnivora. 
Fig. 39. 
Upper jaw. Under jaw. 
Fossil Pole-cat, nat. size. 
