EXTERNAL CHARACTERS OI'^ THE MUSTELIU^. 



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being quite a distinct space between the third and fourth, 

 althougli the space is narrower than that between the second and 

 third or fourth and fifth. As in the fore foot the digital pads 

 are better defined, the plantar pad is narrower, much more 

 strongly curved, and very distinctly four-lobed, the hallucal lobe, 

 like the poUical lobe of the fore foot, being as large as the others 

 individually. There are two well-defined elongated metatarsal 

 pads, confluent in the middle line proximally, and the hairy 

 calcaneal area is a little shorter relatively than in Meles meles. 

 (Text-fig. 35, 0, D.) 



Text-figure 35. 



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A. Right hind toot of Li/iicodon patacfonicus (from dried skin). 



B. Right fore foot of the same. 



C. Right hind foot of Ifelorjale persoiiata. 



D. Right fore foot of the isame. 



C, D, X i. 



The feet of Meles meles I have already described and figured 

 (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1920, pp. 426-428, fig. 20, A, B). In addition 

 to the diflerences mentioned above, it may be added that they 

 are of a more decidedly fossorial type than in Melogcde, the hind 



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