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Show 1880.] DENTAL CHARACTERS OF THE CANID.E. 257 Otocyon shares the last two peculiarities, and exhibits the first in a more marked degree than any other known canine animal, recent or extinct. There are three skulls of this interesting form in the Museum of the Boyal College of Surgeons, and three in the British Museum ; and they all agree very closely with the figures and description given by D e Blainville. Fig. 11. Dorsal view of the skull of Otocyon lalandii: nat. size. In all, the posterior ends of the nasal bones extend beyond the fronto-maxillary suture ; but they vary considerably in width. The frontal processes are well separated from the ascending processes of the pramaxillaries. The temporal ridges are much stronger and the sagittal area narrower in one skull, which appears to be the oldest. There are no frontal sinuses. In all, the subangular lobe of the 17* |