A hand-book to the carnivora. Pt. I, Cats, civets, and mungooses / by Richard Lydekker.

  • Lyddeker, Richard, 1849-1915.
Date:
[1894]
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Credit: A hand-book to the carnivora. Pt. I, Cats, civets, and mungooses / by Richard Lydekker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and pinched in on the sides. Moreover, in all the large Cats the orbit, or socket for the eye, is partially open posteriorly, as the descending process from the frontal bone is not sufficiently elongated to meet the ascending one from the zygomatic or Upper surface of the skull of the Jaguar. cheek- arch ; but in some of the smaller Asiatic species the union is complete. Another peculiarity of the Cats is to be found in the struc- ture of the tongue, the upper surface of which is covered with numerous horny papillae, having the points directed backwards, the effect of which may be observed, when a Lion or any large