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PLEISTOCENE MAMMALIA. 



CHAPTER VI. 



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





CONTENTS. 





§1. 



Introduction. Skulls of Felis spelcea 



§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. 



§7. 



Palatine. 



§ 18. 



Nasal. 



§8. 



Maxillary. 



§ 19. 



Measurements. 



§9. 



Intermaxillary. 



§20. 



Summary. 



§ 10. 



Petrosal; Mastoid; Tympanic; Malleus. 







§ 1. Introduction. Skulls of Felis spelaa discovered in Europe. — Perfect skulls of 

 Felis spelaa 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 the 

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

 Thylacoleo,' 1 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, 3 has altogether 

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

 and Sir Philip de Grey Malpas Egerton have obtained vertebras and many other bones of 

 Eelis, as well as large quantities of the remains of bears. 



There are, however, several figures of the skull. M. de Blainville 3 figures a fine and 



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



2 'Nov. Act. Nat. Cur.,' torn, ix, p. 476, pi. lxv; 'Oss. Foss. 



3 ' Osteographie, Felis,' pi. xv. 



1825, 4to, torn, iv, pi. xxxvi, fig. vi. 



