138 THE EACCOON-LIKE DOG. 



Cranial and Dental Characters. 



The skull only presents a really noteworthy character in the form of 

 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 supra- angular process, for the angle of the mandible 

 has the form it has in very many mammals, 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 Canidce for instance, in the Common 

 Fox occasionally. 



Centimeters. 



Length of cervical vertebrae 10'5 



dorsal 14*5 



lumbar 1TO 



sacral 2'0 



caudal 17*0 



Length from front of atlas to hinder end of sacrum . . 38 '0 



Length of pectoral limb 24-0 



pelvic 29'3 



humerus 8'5 



radius 7-3 



femur 9*5 



tibia 9'8 



index metacarpal 2*9 



third 3'4 



metacarpal of pollex 1'4 



whole pollex 2'8 



last phalanx of third digit (manus) .... 0*9 



index metatarsal . . . 3'3 



metatarsal of hallux 0'7 



J} whole hallux T15 



last phalanx of third digit (pes) TO 



