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.Mi:KI>TJr VARIATION, 



[PART i. 



FIG. 116. Specimen stated by 

 Delplanque to have been the right 

 foot of a Cow (see No. 563). (After 

 DELPLANQUE.) 



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*56G. Sheep, having four toes, each having three phalanges, 

 on each p sterior limb (Fig. 117i. In each case the toes 

 were arranged as two pairs, the hoofs of each pair being 

 turned toward- cadi other. Eucli foot had four united 

 metatarsals, marked off from each other by grooves on the 

 -nrface of the bone, the division between the metatarsals 

 of each pair of toes being clearly marked at the peripheral 

 nds of the bones. In the case of each foot there were 

 part- of a pair of tai>i arranged in a symmetrical and com- 

 plementary manner about the middle Hue of the limb. 

 In cadi tar-us there was a large \> me having the structure 

 of two calcanen, a right and a left, united poMeriorly ; the 

 upward prolongation, proper to the calcaneum, was present 

 on eiidi -id.' of this hour ;md projected upwards on each 



of ill' 1 til'ia. The astragalus of each foot was similarly 

 a hone donlile in form, uniting in it-elf the parts of a ri^'ht 

 and left a-tra^'alus. The left foot had a sin/le flat bone 

 below tlie .-i-trau'alu-. ivpr. -< nting as it were two naviculars 

 fused together ; and four bones in a di-tal row, representing 

 pre-uinalily two ciiiioid-. and two cuneiform dements. In 

 the rL'ht foot also there wa- a single bone below the 



LgalUB, and four other bon< - airan ;ed in a way slightly 

 different from that of the other foot. EKCOI.ANI, ibid., p. 

 77:<. /'-('-. n. ligs. 7 and si. 



Fn;. 117. Bonesof left hind foot of a Sheep, Xo. 01*16 [q.r.] copied from ERCOLANI. 

 clc, clc, the two calcanen. <i-^-<i-. bone repres.-ntiu^ the two astragali, n + ri 2 , 



the two navieulars. //. c'/, tile two cuboids. 



