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auditus are left in gitu. The bulk ossea is formed exclusively by the petrosal ; the mastoid 

 is feebly developed in the angle, between the petrosal, paroccipital and parietal. The removal 

 of part of the right frontal shows the extent to which the rhinencephalic fossa is surrounded 

 by the olfactory chamber. 



4287. The atlas. 



The transverse process is perforated both horizontally and vertically by the vertebral artery : 

 the neural arch is, also, perforated on each side. 



4288. The axis. 4289. Two cervical vertebrae. 

 4290. Eight dorsal vertebrae. 4291. Seven lumbar vertebrae. 

 4292. The sacrum. 4293. Twenty-two caudal vertebrae. 

 4294. Eight pairs of thoracic ribs. 4295. Two scapulae. 



4296. The left humerus. 4297. The left ulna. 



4298. The left radius. 4299. The ossa innominata. 



4300. The right femur. 4301. The right tibia. 



4302. The right fibula. 4303. The two patellae. 



4304. The skull of a young Palm-Civet (Paradoxuru*), showing the deciduous den- 

 tition. Purchased. 



4305. The skeleton of an immature example of one of the Viverrida, with the deci- 

 duous dentition. 



The vertebral formula is : 7 cervical, 1 5 dorsal, 5 lumbar, 3 sacral : there are 23 caudal 

 vertebrae, but the series is incomplete. It is ascribed to the Genet in the Sale-Catalogue of 

 Brookes' Museum and in the Osteological Catalogue of 1831, but from the size and shape of 

 the cranial cavity, and the shortness of the postorbital processes, it is probably the young of 

 a species of Paradoxuru*. 



Mus. Brookes. 



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