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PLEISTOCENE MAMMALIA. 



Measurements. 1 





Feli.i spelcea. 







Tiger 

 114 L. 

 Br. Mus. 



No. 



Bleadon. 



Sandford 

 Hill. 



Lion 

 W. A. S. 



112 L. 

 Br. Mus. 



L. 1. 



1 It. 



2 R. 



1 L. 



2 L. 



1 



3-20 



3-17 



300 



2-80 



270 



3-20 



2-35 



2-25 



2-51 



2 



4-20 



4-25 



3-62 



314 



2-25 



375 



340 



305 



3-40 



3 



1-86 



1-82 



1-61 



1-49 



1-42 



1-62 



1-09 



101 



1-22 



4 



3-33 



3-33 



3-68 



279 



2-45 



3- 15 



2-30 



2-09 



2-22 



5 



170 



1-68 



1-46 



131 



1-31 



1-40 



1-50 



1-40 



0-94 



6 



The 



1-30 



4th and i 



1-28 

 >th specii 



1-26 



TOO 



1-02 



2-00 



the smal 



090 



1-10 



1-27 



nens in tl 



e above list are of 



variety above mer 



itioned. 



The specimen figured is the first in the above list of measurements. It is with many 

 others in the Taunton collection, from Bleadon cavern. Others have occurred to us from 

 Sandford Hill and Oreston. 



Calcaneum, fig. 2. 



The general form of the calcaneum of Felts spelaa, like that of all the Feles, and of 

 most, if not all, the digitate carnivora, is nearly straight from the bulb which forms the 

 attachment of the tendo Achillis (fig. 2, a) to the cuboidal articulation (fig. 2, b). From 

 this bulb the bone slightly increases in size to the upper part of the outer astragaline 

 articulation, at which point is the maximum vertical measurement (fig. 2 c'). 



The posterior boundary is generally a gentle convex sweep through the whole length 

 of the bone ; in some specimens this becomes nearly straight or even very slightly concave 

 as it approaches the bulb for the tendo Achillis. The outer astragaline articulation (fig. 2, 

 c, c') is a broad sigmoidal surface, bent backwards vertically on itself. Near the level of 

 the middle of this surface a stout process rises laterally, at right angles to the body of 

 the bone (fig. 2, d, e), and supports at an angle of about 30° to the axis, a nearly circular 

 surface, which is the inner astragaline articulation (fig. 2, e). In the form of this articula- 

 tion it resembles the lion, that of the tiger being transversely oval. The mass of bone 

 which connects these with the cuboidal articulation is nearly cubical in form, and has on 

 the external surface the prolongation of the cuboidal groove for the tendon of the peroneus 



' In this, as in all cases throughout these monographs, when the numbers alone are given, the measure- 

 ments are — 1, extreme length; 2, minimum circumference; 3, virtual measurement at the proximal 

 articulation ; 4, transverse ditto ditto ; 5, vertical measurement of distal articulation ; 6, transverse ditto 

 ditto. 



