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the number may amount to five, and no abnormal pro- 
jection be observable. Thus far a well-developed tail 
in an adult human subject containing bony elements 
continuing the vertebral series has yet to be detected. 
In the new-born child, soft tails about an inch in length 
have been observed : these contained cartilaginous tissue 
and resembled the flexible tail of pigs. 
Fic, 28.—An A®gipan sporting with a Faun. Bacchus and 
Silenus. 
Many instances of tailed children when critically 
examined turn out to be tumours or tufts of hair in the 
loin. A general notion of a false tail may be gathered 
from the African child represented in fig. 26. In this 
case a large rounded tumour hangs pendulous from the 
child’s buttocks, and a little imagination would soon 
