PUTOBIUS VULGAE1S. 



115 



Dr. Schmerling has figured the entire skull of a fossil 

 Pole-cat from one of the caves in Belgium, and, like that 

 from Berry Head, it is identical with the existing Putorius 

 vulgaris. 



In the subjoined cuts of the teeth of the last-cited fossil, 

 * indicates the alveoli of the three incisors of the upper jaw ; 

 I the socket of the great laniary or canine tooth ; p m the 

 teeth included between the dotted lines, and called pre- 

 molars, the largest being the ' carnassiere ' of the French 

 Anatomists, or the ' sectorial tooth ' ; m is the true molar, 

 or tubercular tooth, the only one of that kind developed in 

 the present family of Carnivora. 



Fig. 39. 



Upper jaw. Under jaw. 



Fossil Pole-cat, nat. size. 



i 2 



