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The anterior chamber is rather more developed, and less distinctly 
marked off externally from the posterior. The orifice of the meatus 
is very large, and opens directly into the tympanic cavity. The 
carotid enters by a distinct groove near the middle of the inner wall 
of the bulla, partially concealed and converted into a canal by the lip 
of the basioccipital. 
The paroccipital process is smoothly expanded over the posterior 
part of the bulla, but does not project beyond it. The mastoid pro- 
cess is not very distinct. The condyloid foramen is much overhung 
by the ridge from the paroccipital. The glenoid foramen is very 
minute. 
Fig. 8. 
Fig. 7. Civet (Viverra civetta). 
8. Paradoxure (Paradoxurus bondar). 
(The letters as in the preceding figures.) 
Mr. Turner remarked that in this species the alisphenoid canal is 
not developed ; but I find, on examining a series of seven skulls in 
the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, that in one this canal 
exists on both sides, and in another on one side only ; in the remainder 
it is absent. 
In the true Genettes, which otherwise closely correspond to the 
Rasse in cranial characters, the alisphenoid canal appears to be always 
present. 
In the Paradoxures (fig. 8) the external form of the bulla is more 
like that of the Civet than the Genette; but the inner or posterior 
chamber presents, in some species at least, the peculiarity of being 
