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bones, but you will notice that in the horse the 

 ulna, after helping the radius to form the elbow 

 joint, coalesces with the radius, so that the two 

 in a full grown horse look like one bone. This 

 being so, the ulna is said to be rudimentary in the 

 horse. 



47. — The bones of the carpus are nearly alike in 

 both, only, of course, larger in the horse. We 

 shall call this the knee as usual, although, as you 

 see, it is the wrist. 



48. — There are five metacarpal bones in our 

 hands, but the horse has only one which is fairly 

 represented by the metacarpal bone belonging to 

 our middle finger. You see two small metacarpal 

 bones in the horse, but these are dwarfed and 

 only rudimentary, and in the very aged, stuck to 

 the larger ' metacarpal. ' Notice, though, that the 

 tops of all three articulate with the bones above 

 them, i. e., with the lower bones of the ^carpus' 

 or *knee.' 



49. — The remaining bones explain themselves 

 almost. Taking the bone in our middle finger 

 from the knuckle to the first joint, we find it cor- 

 responding in everything but size to the long 

 pastern bone of the horse. 



50. — The next bone to this again corresponds 

 with our next bone in the middle finger, but is 

 relatively very much shorter and broader. 



51. — The last bone is very highly developed in 

 the horse, and is called the pedal or ' coffin ' bone. 

 In ourselves it is little more than rudimentary, on 

 account of its not being called upon as a lowest 

 point to bear the weight of our body. We can 



