PLATE VII. 



Pleistocene Mustelioe. 



Vertebra.'. 



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Badger (Metes taxus). 

 (Natural size.) 



'-From the British Museum Collection. 



From the collection of Dr. F. Corner, F.G S 

 of Poplar. 



From the British Museum Collection. 



Atlas, dorsal view 

 Axis, left side view 

 Third cervical, posterior view] 

 Fourth cervical, posterior view' 

 The same bone, left side view 

 Fifth cervical, posterior view 

 First thoracic, left side view 

 Dorso-anterior view of the same bone 

 Fifth thoracic, left side view 

 Dorso-anterior view of the same bone I 



Thirteenth thoracic, posterior view] From the collection of Dr 

 Fifteenth thoracic, left side view J F.G.S. 

 First lumbar, left side view 

 Third lumbar, posterior view 

 The same bone seen from above 

 Sacrum, ventral view 

 All these vertebras are from the Pleistocene of the Happaway Cave, Devon. 

 a. Neural spine 



F. C 



orner 



-From the British Museum Collection. 



h. Neural canal 



c. Pre-zygapophysis 



d. Post-zygapophysis 

 Vertebrarterial canal 

 Transverse process 

 Anapophysis 

 Metapophysis 



-Plates VII and VIII. 



