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PLEISTOCENE MAMMALIA. 



CHAPTER VI. 



Skull; Pis. VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI. 





CONTENTS. 







§1. 



Introduction. Skulls of Felis spelcsa 





§ 11. 



Squamosal. 





found in Europe. 





§ 12. 



Malar or Jugal 



§2. 



Basi-occipital bone. 





§ 13. 



Lachrymal. 



§3. 



Exoccipital ; Supra-occipital. 





§14. 



Ethmoid. 



§4. 



Basi-sphenoid. 





§ 15. 



Wormian. 



§5. 



Ali-sphenoid ; Pterygoid. 





§ 16. 



Parietal. 



§6. 



Pre-sphenoid ; Orbito-sphenoid. 





§ 17. 



Frontal. 



§/"• 



Palatine. 





§ 18. 



Nasal. 



§8. 



Maxillary. 





§ 19. 



Measurements. 



§9. 



Intermaxillary. 





§ 20. 



Summary. 



§ 10. 



Petrosal; Mastoid; Tympanic; Malleus. 









§ I. Introduction. Skulls of Felis spelaea discovered in Europe. — Perfect skulls of 

 Felis speleea are so very rare that we have had the opportunity of studying no more than 

 three which at all approach completeness — that from Sundwig, in Westphalia, now in thu 

 British^^Museum, of which Professor Owen has given excellent figures in his ' Memoir on 

 ThylacoleOj'i and the two which we figure from the Mendip Caves, now in the Taunton 

 Museum. The typical skull figured by Goldfuss, and copied by Cuvier/ has altogethei- 

 eluded our search. It was from the cavern of Gailenreuth from which Lord Enniskillcii 

 and Sir'Philip de Grey Malpas Egerton have obtained vertebrae and many other bones ol' 

 Felis,"as well as large quantities of the remains of bears. 



There are, however, several figures of the skull. j\I. de Blainville^ figures a fine and 



' 'Philosophical Transactions,' 1859, pt. i, pis. xii, xv. 



2 'Nov. Act. Nat. Cur.,' torn, ix, p. 4/6, pi. Ixv ; 'Oss. Foss.,' 1825, 4to, torn, iv, pi. xxxvi, fig. vi. 



' ' Ostcograpbie, Felis,' pi. xv. 



