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TUBES IN THE FEET OF THE MOOSE—MORROW. 161 
rest with the palmar surfaces of their extremities upon the land, 
because there is greater freedom of leg and arm than in our 
seals. They move more freely and with greater rapidity when 
on land, nevertheless their movements are on the whole very 
similar to those of our own species. 
Nore—The tentorium cerebellum partly of bone as in cat, falx cerebri at its junction with 
tentorium also formed of bone, 
Art. VI.—Tuses IN THE FEET OF THE Moose,—By R. 
Morrow. 
Read May 10th, 1880. 
In April, 1877, I read to you some “ Notes on the Caribou,” 
(see vol. 4, Transactions N. S. I. N. &., page 281, et seq.,) in 
which I drew your attention to the tubes in the feet of the 
moose. I shot last December an old cow moose, in the hind feet 
of which the tubes were fully developed, but differed from those 
in the hind feet of the bull described by me (see page 292, 
ibid,) in being more perfect in shape, closely resembling the 
tubes in the hind feet of the old doe caribou, that is, being much 
narrower and more perfectly defined in their mouths, and of 
nearly equal diameter to their inferior extremities, also being 
very strongly marked, as in the caribou, by the coarse, bristly 
tufts of hair which issue from their mouths. The inferior ex- 
tremities of the tubes are attached, as in the caribou, by strong 
fascia to the superior surface of the skin of*the web, or soles of 
the feet. 
In the fore feet the tubes were nearly obliterated, existing 
only as a slight depression in the skin, about one inch in length, 
the tube proper being so reduced as scarcely to be perceptible ; 
this depression, lying between the phalanges, is attached as in 
the hind feet, by fascia to the sole, but the fascia extends to 
the middle of the depression, marking what was originally the 
lower extremity of the tubes, and it is therefore of greater length 
than that in the hind feet. There were no bristly tufts marking 
the tubes in the fore feet of this cow moose, as are in the fore 
feet of the doe caribou. 
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