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Show 1900.] HAIR-SLOPE IN CERTAIN MAMMALS. 679 6. CARNIVORES.-Among these, Ursidae ; Procyonidae (except the Great Panda) ; Mustelidae ; Otariidae; Phocidae; Tricbe-chidae ; Viverridae, and Canidae conform to the Ordinary Type. 7. PRIMATES.-Lemuridae mostly present this type, thus differing from tbe type found in Monkeys and Anthropoid Apes and in Man, w7hich will be described later. It is more particularly those instances among Carnivores and Ungulates, departing from the Ordinary Type, to which I desire to draw attention. So far as I have been able to ascertain from a great number of specimens, living and dead, among Carnivores the great majority follow the Ordinary Type. The exceptions observed are somewhat remarkable-viz., Felis leo, F. tigris, F. pardus, F.onca, F. concolor, F. Ignx, F. jubatus, and the Domestic Cat. In these animals so decidedly marked off, by their deep and massive muzzle, from the smaller and more numerous allies of the Felidae, tbe direction of the slope of hair on the nasal region is towards the external nares, beginning from a whorl which is situated about midway between the level of the orbits and the external nares. From this whorl there is no interruption to the straight line taken by the hair-slope till it reaches the muzzle. (See Lion, fig. 1, p. 678.) One singular exception to the Ordinary Type is found in the Panda (AEfturopus melanoleucus), and in this animal the whorl is found slightly nearer to the external nares than that of the larger Felidae, and tbe slope thence to the nares resembles theirs. The Panda and the larger Felidae, it may be remembered, have all massive, deep muzzles. As to Carnivores, then, it appears that all Dogs, Foxes, Wolves, Jackals, Smaller Cats, nearly all Bears, Bacoons, Seals, Walruses, Weasels, Badgers, Otters, Skunks, present the Ordinary Type of hair-slope on the nasal and frontal regions. These are all animals with elongated, more or less pointed snouts. The exceptions brought forward-Lion, Tiger, Leopard, Puma, Jaguar, Lynx, Cheetah, Panda-are those of animals with deep, massive snouts. UNGULATES furnish a greater number of exceptions to the Ordinary Type than any other group of mammals. It has been seen that the majority even of this order are, so to 3peak, normal. The exceptions which have been noted are as follows :-- Boridce, or True Oxen. n° , ,! , present a uniform slope from a whorl Bos frontalis, f , ,, , • ' c ,, , •' , . ' [between the insertion ot the horns to a os son , , j^point just above the margin of the muzzle, °5, a n <* 1 \ where a secondarv small whorl is found. Congo Buffalo), I Bos depressicornis.-Slope passes from a whorl close below the |