VESTIGIAL STRUCTURES. gi 
modern fauns so constantly as in ancient fauns, and are 
usually represented as pendulous structures, admirably 
shown in the drawing of a faun in the Capitol (fig. 48). 
In all cases these pendulous skin tags in the statues are 
Fic. 48.—A Faun and Goat from the Capitol, with 
cervical auricles. 
placed along the anterior border of the sterno-mastoid 
muscle. It is, of course, a matter for discussion whether 
the sculptors obtained their notion of the cervical 
auricles from human models or from goats. In some 
