ANATOMY 27 



mal, when nosing over foreign objects or when 

 feeling its way in the dark, that its head is 

 coming in contact with foreign bodies; and 

 they are really organs of self -protection. These 

 are seen represented in Figure 5, which also 



FIG. 5. MUZZLE OF CAT, SHOWING ABOVE, NOSE- 

 POINT AND NOSTRILS- COVERED WITH DENSE Mucous 

 MEMBRANE ; AT SIDES, VIBRISS^E ; AND BELOW, THE LIPS 

 AND CHIN. 



represents the lips the upper and hrvver lip 

 the nostrils, and the point of the nose. And 

 it will be understood in the description of the 

 various cats in the latter part of this book that 

 when the nose is spoken of as being black or 

 pink, it is meant to indicate that this col- 

 oration applies to the mucous membrane sur- 



