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number of bones, were much reduced in size, and 

 did not reach to the ground (see Fig. 5), but were sus- 

 pended to the outside of, and rather behind, the large 

 middle one, like the rudimentary outer toes of the 



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FIG. 5. Side and front view of the bones of the left 

 fore-foot of Hipparion. s, and s', upper and lower 

 sesamoid bones. (From Gaudry.) 



deer or the short first digit (" dew-claw ") of the dog. 

 Well-preserved remains of animals with this struct- 

 ure of foot have been met with abundantly at Pi- 

 kermi, in Greece, and also in most of the deposits of 



