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posteriorly, and is broader than high. The length is to the breadth as 
1 to 1.37. The pre-spinous region is broad inferiorly. The spine is 
prominent and thin, and is abruptly truncated inferiorly. * 
The coronoid process is rudimentary. 
The pelvis is long and narrow, being about three times as long as 
broad at the widest part. The crest of the ileum is turned abruptly 
outward, forming a deep and large cup-shaped fossa. This is consider- 
ably larger thanin Pusa. The obturator foramen is elliptical and small, 
while the region of the pubic symphysis is long and broad. 
The fore and hind legs.—Both great and lesser 
tuberosities of the humerus are very. strongly 
developed. The olecranon of the ulna is large, 
hamular, and broad in the anteroposterior diree- 
tion, with a large mammiform process externally. 
It is entirely distinct from the radius. The lat- 
ter is remarkably broad and flat at the inferior 
extremity. The bones of the carpus are very 
unequal in size; the magnum is very small; the 
cuneiform is large, and so placed as to exelude 
articulation between the unciform and pisiform, 
while it articulates with the fifth metacarpal. 
The digits decrease in size gradually from the 
first to the fifth. The femur is short and broad, 
’ the great trochanter well developed and quad- 
rate. The tibia and fibula are anchylosed at 
the proximal extremity. The proportion of the 
length of the femur to that of the tibiais as1 to 
i 2.28. All the fosse are large and deep. 
Pelvis of iisiesanaen Pavstile In the tarsus the meso-cuneiform is the smallest 
No. 13285. bone. Thecuboid articulates about equally with 
the calcis and the astragalus. The digits are of unequal size; they de- 
crease in length in the following order: First, fifth, second, fourth, 
third. The proportion of the length of the femur to that of the pes is 
as 1 to 3.06. The proportion of the length of the femur to that of the 
whole limb is as 1 to 6.38. The proportion of the length of the pes to 
that of the whole limb is as 1 to 1.92. It thus appears that the feet 
are large. The pelvisand tibia are of exactly equal length. 
* Since the division of the inferior portions of the scapular spine into acromion and 
metacromion, by Mivart and other anatomists, it becomes somewhat difficult to ascer- 
tain whether one or both of the parts so called are present or absent. If the inferior 
termination of the scapular spine, however formed, is to be termed the acromion, 
then no scapulie can be said to lack the latter except those in which its entire upper 
margin describes a more or less uniform curve. In my preliminary diagnosis (Amer. 
Nat., xvii, 1883, 798) I stated that the scapular spine is without acromion. I still 
believe that this is a true statement, but not as generally understood. 
