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EXPLANATION

OF

PLATE 33.

Profile-drawings of the skull of 16 various Mammals, intended to illustrate the general
survey of the Mammalian skull given in the text p 81—86.

Fig. 1. Didelphys marsupialis, not quite adult, c. f.

2. Domestic Dog, f .

3. Hippopotamus amphibius, c. -A.

4. Macacus sp., c. f.

5. Saiga-Antelope, f.

6. Manatee, ^.

7. Dugong, f.

8. Awicola agrestis, y.

9. Phyllostoma hastatum, f.

10. Dipus cegyptiacus, f. The large swelled segment, constituting the latero-
posterior part of the skull, is the petroso-tympanicum. The narrow
hands extending over it, one from before-backwards (bent), another
transversely on the upper side, are bandlike outgrowths from the squamosal
and the supraoccipital respectively (comp. also PI. 34 fig. 5).
— 11. Arctomgs marmota, a little magnif.

12. Hydroehoerus capgbara, \. On the zygoma is indicated the tooth-series
lying mediad to it, as if the zygoma were translucent.

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13. Porcus babyrussa,

14. Sus scrofa, ferus, ?, J.

15. Phacochoerus africamis,

16. Phoceena communis, \.