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each marked by a short conical superior transverse apophyse, 

 and having a separation, from each other and from the axis, 

 distinguished by four lateral holes, while the vestiges of the fifth, 

 sixth, and seventh vertebrae are thin as paper, and soldered 

 on to the back of the preceding ones. The superior transverse 

 apophysis of the third and fourth vertebrae are also distin- 

 guishable, although those of the right side are more developed 

 than those of the left ; — a character, by the way, belonging to 

 the whole of this compound bone as well as to the spine 

 generally. The vertical apophyse of all the joints may be 

 considered as uniting to form one short cone on the back of 

 the neck. The dimensions of this compound cervical ver- 

 tebra are as follow : — 



Total width 



Vertical height . . 



Length 



Width of foramen 



Inches. 



^ 



2 



There are of dorsal vertebrae 14 



Lumbar ditto. ... 9 



^ J 1 c>i ) 13 with y bones attached. 



Caudal , . ^1 > q , • i 



) o termmal. 



Making a total of vertebrae. . 45, if the cervical vertebrae be 



counted as one. 



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