138 THE EACCOON-LIKE DOG. 



Cranial and Dental Characters. 



The skiill only presents a really noteworthy character in the form ut 

 the mandible, though seen laterally its dorsum is strongly concave 

 antero-posteriorly between the forehead and the end of the nasals. 



The mandible is very remarkable for the great development of what 

 has been called the " subangular process." The appearance, however, 

 is rather that of a siipra-aiii/ular 2^rocrsx, for the angle of the mandible 

 has the form it has in very many n)aniuials, while above it is a strongly 

 marked, backwardly projecting, distally up-curved process, which is, 

 like the angular process of many other dogs, pushed up towards the 

 condyle. 



The second upper molar is well developed, but not much more so 

 than in many others of the Canida — for instance, in the Common 

 I'ox occasionally. 



OiDti meters. 



Length of cervical vertebrae 105 



„ dorsal „ ] lo 



„ lumbar „ 110 



„ sacral „ 20 



„ caudal „ 170 



Length from front of atlas to hinder end of sacnmi . . 380 



Length of pectoral limb 24*0 



„ pelvic „ 29-3 



„ humerus 8"5 



„ radius 7-3 



„ femur 95 



tibia 9-8 



„ index metacarpal 2"9 



„ third „ 3-4 



„ metacarpal of poUex 1-4 



„ whole poUex 28 



„ last phalanx of third digit (manus) .... 0-9 



„ index metatarsal 3-3 



„ metatarsal of hallux 0"7 



„ whole haUux 1-15 



„ last phalanx of third digit (pes) I'O 



