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The later deposits bordering- the river-courses and 

 covering- the river-terraces, at elevations from 20 to 

 100 feet above sea-level, which may be desig-nated as 

 the river phase of the Columbian formation, contain 

 extensive beds of sandy clays and brick-loams; and, 

 throug-hout the entire Coastal Plain region of the South 

 Atlantic States, it is these deposits which are most 

 largely used m the manufacture of brick. 



A DESCRIPTION OF SOME OF THE MUSCLES 

 OF THE CAT. 



BY H. V. WIIvSON AND G. H. KIRBY. 



The most complete account extant of the cat's mus- 

 cular system is that found in Strauss-Durckheim's An- 

 atomic du Chat^ The expense of the work, however, 

 renders it inaccessible to many. And in spite of the 

 g-reat beauty and general accuracy of the plates, it is 

 not well adapted to the purposes of the dissector, ow- 

 ing chiefly to the length and detailed character of the 

 descriptions (e. g. psoas-niuscles and quadratics lum- 

 horum) and in a less degree to what we regard as the 

 misleading subdivision of the muscles of certain groups 

 (e. g. fcctoral gxo\y^). With due deference to such a 

 magnificent work, the results of dissection lead us to 

 differ from Strauss-Durckheim in certain points of de- 

 tail, to some of which attention is called. 



Perhaps the most generally useful work on the cat 

 is that of Mivart^ . The descriptions and accompanying 



1 Strauss-Durckheim. Anatomie Descriptive et Comparative du 

 Chat. 2 vols, and Atlas. Paris, 1845. 



2 St. George Mivart. The Cat. New York, 1895 (latest issue). 



