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Show 1882] PROF. ST.-GEORGE MIVART ON THE ALUROIDEA. 499 we find the tongue of the former to be relatively longer, more slender, and more pointed anteriorly. The fraenum is attached for nearly two thirds the tongue's length instead of only for about half. The lytta is about as much developed, relatively, as in the Cat. The fungiform papilla are scattered pretty equally over the greater part of the dorsum of the tongue, but are absent from a narrow elongated tract in the middle of its dorsum. There are only three circumvallate papilla, one in the middle, and one on each side of it, a very little in advance, so that they form together an extremely obtuse angle open forwards. Fig. 3. WwMmm B. A. Tongue of the Civet: c, conical papillae; /, fungiform papillae; c.v, circumvallate papillae. , B. Tongue of the Genet: /, free fold of mucous membrane. Each circumvallate papilla is large, with from 9 to 12 small papilla on its surface. The conical papilla are not horny , but are simply short conical processes scattered oyer the dorsum of the tongue, being longest on its middle towards the apex and also at its sides There is no conspicuous patch of specially modified papillae towards the anterior part of the dorsum. The flattened papilla are verv small, close-set, and inconspicuous compared with those of Felis; they are scarcely larger than the conical papillae. i Thev are said by Daubenton (Buffon, Hist. Nat. tome ix. pp. 322 & 337) to be much more conspicuous in the Zibet than m the Orvet. |
