OF THE KUROPEAN AND AMERIC;AN HAUGERS. 



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In the following table the principal difierences are placetl side 

 by side for comparison : — 



Muzzle 



Meles. 



Taxidea. 



Elongated, comparatively uar- Short and broad, with short ! 



I row, witli prominent pre- premaxi 

 maxillae. Infraorbital fora- tbrameu 



ixillaj. 



Infraorbital 



men large. al)ove the anterior 

 portion of the upper molar 

 and behind tlie carnassial. 



Zygomata 



Brain-case . 



Occipital area 



B alias. 



Foramina 



Teeth 



Strongly salient behirid orbit ; 

 the posterior base expanded 

 laterally and posteriorly con- 

 siderably beyond glenoid. 



Upper surface sloping posteri- 

 orly ; lateral walls rounded, 

 converging behind zygomata. 

 Sagittal crest high. 



Much narrower tlian zygomatic 

 width. Mastoids compara- 

 tively narrow and elongated, 

 inclined downwards and for- 

 wards beneath the auditory 

 meatus and lov^er than the 

 glenoid. liasioccipito-sphe- 

 noiilal ])]ane inclined up- 

 wards from foramen. 



Moderately inflated, scarcely 

 below the plane of tiie occi- 

 pital condyles and not ex- 

 tending forwards to the 

 glenoid. 



For. rot. concealed and open- 

 ing alongside _/(;r. htc. ant. ; 

 for. 00. considerably in ;ul- 

 vance of for. lac. med. 



Upper carnassial conipara- 

 tivfetl.v small, less than 4 

 of molar. Molar irregularly 

 four-sided, with two roots 

 imbedded in cheek and two 

 large cusps exposed in lateral 

 view of skull : crown with 

 one median longitudinal 

 ridge of cusps. Lower car- 

 nassial with heel ai)0ut as 

 large as the anterior ])ortion, 

 and hollowed in the nriddle 

 with two external and two 

 internal but no mediiai 

 cusp ; in tlie anterior portion 

 of the tooth the anterior 

 cusp is smaller than the main 

 cusp, which is well in ad- 

 vance of the inner cusp. 



anterior portion 

 upper Ciunassial. 



of the 



Moderately salient behind 

 orbit; its posterior base nol 

 expanded laterally and pos- 

 teriorly beyond glenoid. 



Upper surface hardl}'^ sloping 

 posteriorly ; lateral walls 

 gradually divergent from 

 orbits to occiput. Sagittal 

 crest low or absent. 



Almost as wide as zygomatic 

 width. Mastoids greatly 

 expanded but sliort, not 

 projecting below auditorx 

 meatus and about on ji leve 

 with the glenoid. Basiocci- 

 pito-sphenoidal plane hori- 

 zontal. 



Much inflated, a long wa\ 

 below the plane of the occi- 

 pital condyles and abuttinc 

 against the glenoid. 



For. rot. not concealed, open- 

 ing separately from and be 

 neath /"or. lac. ant.\ for. ov 

 just in front of for lac. 

 med. 



Upper carnassial enormous, 

 larger than molar. Molai 

 equilaturally triiingular. 

 with one root indjedded in 

 cheek and one cusp exposed 

 in lateral view of the skull, 

 Crown with two transverse 

 rov.'s of tubei'cles. Lowei 

 carnassial with heel aboui 

 ^ the area of the anterioi 

 portion, with one external, 

 one median, and one ])os- 

 terior cusp forming a trans 

 verse line; in the anterio; 

 portion of the tooth flu 

 antei'ior cusp is as large a^ 

 'the mam cusp, wdiich is in 

 the same transverse line a;- 

 the inner cusp. 



