706 

 4498. The right radius. 4499. The left ulna. 



4500. The ossa innominata. 4501. The right femur. 



4502. The right patella. 4503. The right tibia. 



4504. The right fibula. 



4505. The skeleton of the Tiger (Mia Tigris). 



The vertebral formula is: 7 cervical, 13 dorsal, 7 lumbar, and 3 sacral: there are 22 

 caudal, but the series is not quite complete. The transverse processes of the last cervical 

 vertebra, consisting of diapophyses only, are imperforate. 



Mus. Brookes. 



4506. The skull of a male Bengal Tiger (Felis Tigris). 



The left zygomatic arch and the left frontal sinuses have been fractured. It displays the 

 carnivorous adaptations as strongly as in the skull of the male Lion, No. 4478, which it equals 

 in size ; but the nasal bones are relatively longer and extend further back than the nasal pro- 

 cesses of the maxillary bones, which are, as it were, truncated. The concavity of the frontal 

 platform between the deflected postorbital processes is narrower than in the Lion ; the sub- 

 orbital foramina are smaller. The longitudinal ridge on the inner and fore part of the base 

 of the crown of the upper canines is more feeble, and subsides sooner than hi the Lion. 



Hunter ian. 



4507. The skull of a Bengal Tiger (Felis Tigris'). 



In the length of the nasal bones, the truncation and comparative shortness of the nasal pro- 

 cesses of the maxillary bones, in the short extent and feebleness of the antero-internal ridge 

 of the upper canine, and in the narrowness of the median concavity of the interorbital region, 

 this Tiger's skull repeats the characteristics of the preceding. 



Hunter ian. 



4508. The skull of a Bengal Tiger (Felis Tigris). 



It has been coated with a brownish varnish, and repeats the specific characteristics pre- 

 viously pointed out. 



Hunterian. 



4509. The skull of a Tiger (Felis Tigris). Hunterian. 



