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THE HIND FOOT OR PES. 



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astragalus is divided into two nearly equal facets, one for the 

 navicular and one for the cuboid. The calcaneum has an 

 articular facet for the lower end of the fibula. 



In the Suina (Fig. 120) all the tarsal bones are distinct. 

 The four toes are well developed, and the metatarsals are 

 usually distinct. The foot is relatively shortest and broadest 

 in the Hippopotamus, the outer toes being nearly as long as 

 the others, and the ungual phalanges very short, broad, 

 and rounded in front. The Peccaries show a transition 



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Fig. 120. — Dorsal surface of right tarsus 

 . of Pig (Sus scrofa), £. 



Fig. i2i. — Dorsal surface of right tarsal 

 of Red Deer [Cervus elap/ins), \. 



towards the ruminating sections of the order in the reduc- 

 tion of the size of the outer toes and the confluence of the 

 third and fourth metatarsals. On the hind foot the fifth 

 digit is absent though the second is tolerably well developed. 



