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SKELETON OF THE LION. 



ribs directly join the sternum, which consists of eight 

 bones. The chavicles are reduced to clavicular bones, 

 58, suspended in the flesh. The supraspinal fossa of 

 the scapula is less deep than the infraspinal one, and 

 its border is almost uniformly convex; the acromion is 

 bifid, the recurved point being little larger than the ex- 

 tremity or anterior point. The humerus, 53, is perforated 



Fiff. 43. 



SKELETON OP THE LION (Fclis Ico). 



above the inner condyle, but not between the condyles. 



The radius, 55, and ulna, 54, are so articulated as to 

 permit a free rotation of the fore-paw. The scaphoid and 

 lunar bones are connate. Besides these, the bones of the 

 carpus are the cuneiforme; the pisiforme; the trapezium, 

 which gives an articulation to the ulnar side of the base 

 of the short metacarpus of the pollex; the trapezoides; 

 the magnum, which is the least of the carpal bones; the 

 unciforme, which supports, as usual, the metacarpals of 



