38 CARNIVORA. 



is placed a horny substance in the shape of a claw, whose convexity is 

 forwards, fixed to a body on their convex edge for near one half of their 

 length, the other half is projecting 1 . 



As the larynx is at a greater distance from the common cavity of the 

 mouth than is common in other animals, the tongue is obliged to be long 

 in proportion ; but the anterior part of the tongue is what may be called 

 ( true tongue,' and that is only attached to the larynx by a continuation 

 of substance, although not of the same kind of surface, nor is it near so 

 solid. 



The os hyoides in a cat is as in a dog, and there is not that distance 

 between the tongue and os hyoides in either as in the Hon. The voice 

 of the lion is a hollow roar. The roof of the mouth is very rough, 

 having transverse ruga?, which are turned backward, stronger anteriorly; 

 they are somewhat papillous, with a number of papilla? between them. 

 The ' worm ' in the tongue is very small, as small as that in a cat. 



The parotid gland is but a small one, but there is one of the same 

 kind placed on the inside of the temporal muscle at the bottom part of 

 the orbit, which is not bone in this animal. The duct of this gland 

 passes out round the posterior tooth in the upper jaw and enters the 

 inside of the cheek, upon the outside of the last grinder. 



A veiy long styloid process, which is similar to that part of the os 

 hyoides which is attached to the head in other animals, is bent, passing 

 first inwards along the basis of the skull, then forwards or downwards 

 in this animal, and is connected to a gi'aniform cartilage by a ligament ; 

 whereas in a dog they are connected by bones articulated. As there is 

 a great distance between the tongue and os hyoides, the velum pendulum 

 palati is broad in proportion, or rather long, to cover the aperture of 

 the larynx, which is at a considerable distance ; there are two elastic 

 muscles in the direction of the velum pendulum palati, so that there are 

 two long membranous canals passing from the head to the larynx, viz. 

 the upper part of the oesophagus, and the passage from the nose to the 

 larynx. There is no uvula. The rimula laryngis, which is con- 

 tinued from the epiglottis in man and in the dog, is not so in the Hon, 

 for the ridge from the epiglottis is continued out on the outside of the 

 cricoides, and is lost insensibly in the root of the cricoid. The ridge 

 from the tip of the cricoid is carried forward to the upper part of the 

 thyroid at the root of the epiglottis, and just above the Hgament of the 

 larynx ; the Hgaments [chorda? vocales] are very broad, and arise from 

 all the anterior edge of the cricoid, so that the Hgaments and the ridge 

 from the cricoid arise at the cricoid both together 2 . 



' [Hunt, Preps. Ncfe. 1512. 1513.] 2 [lb. Nos. 1172, 1509.] 



