lONOGEAPH OF THE GAIWM. 



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Characters of the Familj/. — The Canidce are Carnivorous Mammals, 

 with only four couiplcte digits behind and four or five in front ; pre- 

 molars four above and four below ; molars generally two above and 

 three below on each side ; auditory bulla smooth, rounded, with a very 

 incomplete internal septum ; paroccipital process projecting and applied 

 against the bulla ; mastoid distinct but small ; condyloid and glenoid 

 foramina conspicuous ; a well-developed alisphenoid canal ; brain with 

 four convolutions around the Sylvian fissm'e ; cajcum always present, 

 and mostly coiled on itself; bone of corpus cavernosum straight, wide, 

 and grooved ; prostate salient ; no Cowper's glands. 



Subdivisions of the Family. 



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Genera. 

 Canis. 



Cvo.\. 



CANID.E. <; I^igits 5-4<; ,^^ 1 Yc^.^^o^. 



Digits 4 — 4 



M. 7 . . . . . . . Otocyon. 



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Lycaox. 



