INTEODUCTIOX. 



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wliicli they walk are naked, bat in digitigrade animals the correspond- 

 ing jiarts — the metacarpi's* of the fore limb, and the metatarsus of tlie 

 hind limb, — which are raised above the ground, are hairy. 



Fis. 1. 



Fig. 2. 



Fig. 1. — Under surface of right fore foot of Iclifyon veiiatlcus. (Natural size.) 

 Fig. 2. — Under surface of right hind foot of same. (Natural size.) 



(.Vftcr Flower.) 



2y/e Skeleton. 

 The bones which compose the vertebral column, spine or " back- 

 bone," consist of seven cervical vertebrae (as in almost all mammals), 

 thirteen dorsal, seven lumbar (rarely six, as we have found in C.jubatus), 

 three or four sacral, and from eleven to twenty-two caudal vertebrae. 



• For an explanation of these terms the reader is referred to the Author's book on 

 ' The Cat,' pp. 98 and 115, and therein will be found full particulars as to the names of 

 the bones, parts of bones, muscles, and other organs and anatomical structures herein 

 referred to. Space cannot be afforded for such explanations in the present work. 



