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between eyes, suffused with cream-buff, so that this region is 

 paler than any other part of the animal ; muzzle and cheek to 

 and surrounding eye in a stripe about 10 mm. wide, dark brown ; 

 claws light horn-colour. 



Skull. — The skull is larger and more massive than in any of 

 the other European Mustelidse, its general form somewhat inter- 

 mediate between that of Meles and Maries. Dorsal profile with 

 slight anterior concavity over middle of short nasals, then rather 



fig. 88. 



Gulo gulo. Reduced. 



strongly convex to bregmal region, behind which it is straight 

 and nearly horizontal to distinctly overhanging lambda. Brain- 

 case elongate-ovate in outline when viewed from above, about 

 l{ times as wide as deep, the sagittal crest moderately developed 

 in old individuals and joining rather low lambdoid crests in a 

 noticeably backward projecting point, the entire occipital region 

 sufficiently overhanging to conceal condyles when viewed from 

 above. Floor of brain-case with no special peculiarities, the 

 basioccipital essentially as in Maries martes but relatively wider. 



