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interest when considered by themselves, but when 

 taken in connection with the geographical distribu- 

 tion of the animals, are of great significance. As 



FIG. 24. 



A. Left fore-foot of the Red Peer. B. Left fore-foot of the connron Hop. 

 c, Cannon-bone; m, metacarpals ; />, upper jilialin .i row of 



tarsal and metatarsal bones of the Gelocus. Alter Kowalewsky. 



examples of this we may take the red deer and the 

 common roe (Fig. 24). The rudimentary toes in 

 both cases consist of three phalanges. In the red 



