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THE MANUS. 



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and lunar are not united, and there are five digits, of which 

 the first is extremely small, and has only one minute 

 nodular phalanx. In another species, H. dorsalis, the pollex 



Fig. o'3- — Bones of the manus of Cape Hyrax {Hyrax cnpcnsis), nat. size. 



it reduced to a short metacarpal ; the fifth digit has but 

 two phalanges, and the centrale is united with the trapezoid. 

 The ungual phalanges of the three middle digits are small, 

 and somewhat conical in form. 



In the Elephant the manus is short and broad, the carpal 

 bones are massive and square, and articulate by very flat 

 surfaces ; they consist of scaphoid, lunar and cuneiform, a 

 pisiform and the usual four bones of the distal row, all 

 distinct, without the centrale. There are five digits, with 

 short stout phalanges, the terminal ones being very small 

 and of irregular form. 



