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surface of that bone. The digits of the Carnivora are mostly 

 five, and are never less than four. The mode of progression may 

 be digitigrade or plantigrade, and the intermediate semidigitigrade 



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FIG 192. Brain of Dog. A, Ventral : B, dorsal ; C, lateral aspe 

 lobe ; Cr.ce, crura cerebri ; Fi.p, great longitudinal fissure r; 

 lobes of cerebellum ; Hyp, hypophysis ; Med, spinal cord ; <. 

 Po wms Varolii Ftf, cerebral hemispheres ; Wu, middle lobe (vermis] 

 I-%II cerebral nerves. (From Wiedersheim's Comparative Am 



mode of walking also occurs. The brain in all Carnivora is large 

 and well convoluted. The arrangement of the convolutions 

 characteristic. There are three or four gyri disposed round each 

 other of which the lowest surrounds the Sylvian fissure, 

 stomach in these creatures is always simple in form., without 



