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4214. The skull of the light -coloured and partly domesticated variety of the Polecat, 

 called ' Ferret ' (Putorius Furo, var.). Huntenan. 



4215. The skull of a Ferret (Putorius Furo, var.). Presented by Henry Cline, Esq. 



4216. A vertically and longitudinally bisected cranium of a Ferret (Putorius 

 Furo, var.). Presented by Henry Cline, Esq. 



4217. A transversely bisected cranium of a Ferret (Putorius Furo, var.). 



In the posterior section the bony tentorium is seen to project rather from the upper than 

 from the posterior wall of the cranium. In the anterior section the olfactory chamber is seen 

 surrounding the rhinencephalic fossa, and causing the cranium to appear dilated at that part : 

 the air must be filtered, as it were, through the complex turbinals before passing into the 

 canal of the posterior nares. 



Presented by Prof. Owen, F.E.S. 



The following, to No. 4229 inclusive, are parts of the same skeleton of the Ferret (Putorius 

 Furo, var.) : 



Hunterian. 



4218. The skull. 



The teeth have been removed from one side of both jaws, and are separately displayed. 



4219. The atlas. 4220. The third and fourth cervical vertebrae. 



4221. The sacrum. 



It consists of three anchylosed vertebrae. 



4222. The left scapula. 4223. The left humerus. 

 4224. The left radius. 4225. The left ulna. 

 4226. The right os innominatum. 4227. The right femur. 

 4228. The right tibia. 4229. The right fibula. 



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