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ZOOLOGY 



SECT. 



radius and ulna are ankylosed at their extremities. The carpus 

 has seven bones in the Manatee : the pisiform is absent. In 

 Dugong coalescence takes place between the carpal bones, so that 

 the number of ossifications is reduced in the adult. There are 

 five digits, all of which possess the normal number of phalanges. 



The pelvis 'is represented by a pair of vestiges widely separated 

 from the spinal column, and having a vertical position : they 

 probably represent the ilia. 



Skeleton of the Ungulata. In general the centra 6f the 

 Ungulata are more or less distinctly opisthocoelous. The odontoid 

 process of the axis (Fig. 1084) has a peculiar spout-like form in the 

 majority of the Ruminants, and in a less marked degree in the 

 Horses and Tapirs : in the Chevrotains, the Pigs and the Pro- 

 boscidea it is conical. In the Ruminants the cervical "-vertebrae- 



trans 



FIG. 1084. Axis of Red Deer (Cervus elaphus). A, lateral view ; B, dorsal view. ep. epiphysis- 

 of centrum ; od. odontoid process ; pt.z. post-zygapophysis ; sp. neural spine ; trans, transverse 

 process. 



present a median keel below, produced in the posterior part of the- 

 region into a process. The development of the cervical neural spines 

 varies : in most they are elongated and compressed ; but in the 

 Horses they are almost completely absent, and in the Elephants 

 they are all small, with the exception of the last. The number 

 of thoracico-lumbar vertebrae is nearly always nineteen in the 

 Artiodactyles, twenty-three in the Perissodactyles and in the 

 Proboscidea. Hyrax has a larger number of trunk vertebrae 

 twenty-eight to thirty than any other terrestrial Mammal. The 

 transverse processes of the lumbar vertebrae are nearly always 

 elongated, flattened, and directed outwards, or outwards and slightly 

 forwards. Usually there is a single wide sacral vertebra united 

 with the ilia, ankylosed with which behind are a varying number 



