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tive, wherever rapidity of movement has to be executed. There is also 

 another thing equally desirable. That addition is a full development of 

 the motor power which affects the larynx. 



■WIDB AND NARROW CHANNELS. 



This last point has never been sought for, although the writer has seen 

 it prominently exhibited in some animals. Wherever it has been beheld, 

 the author has confidently pronounced the high character of the quad- 

 ruped ; he has not, in a single instance, been mistaken in his conclusion. 

 The muscles which are attached to the spur process of os hyoides, or to 

 the bone which regulates the movement of the larynx, when well de- 

 veloped, are discernible in the living animal. They form a kind of indi- 

 cation as though nature was half disposed to invest the animal with a 



PROMINENT SETELOPMSNT OF TB£ HTOIDEAL MUSCLES. 



miniature dew-lap. They lead the muscles of the neck perceptibly more 

 forward than these agents run in the majority of horses, and in some 

 specimens they may, with a little manipulation, be traced almost to the 

 point of their insertion. 



