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rill': ANATU.MY or the ilOil.SE 



and sevL'utli dorsal showing a slight change of form in the inclination of 

 their spinous processes. ]lut between the first and second cervical and 

 the last lumbar the difTerence is so marked, that they are not at once 

 perceived by the casual observer to belong to the same class of bones. 

 Tn this change the transition is gradual, the sixth and seventh cervical 



resembling the first and second dorsal, and so on in .succession fi'om before 

 backwards. 



GENERAL CHARACTERS OF THE CERVICAL 

 VERTEBRi^ 



In thk iiui;m; thk ckhvk.al vKitiEUK.K are (.ach very kni- ;is compared 

 witli those of most of the mammalia, bemg, however, exceeded in this respect 

 by the camelopard. They present an irregularly euljuidal shape, and ma}- be 



