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THE EXTERIOR OF THE HORSE. 



possesses of easing the animal, it also makes him show his real age, 

 two reasons which should prevent its being considered as a fraudulent 

 procedure. 



c. Incisors too Long in the Inferior Jaw alone. — The infe- 

 rior pincers and intermediates are equally capable of lengthening be- 

 yond measure and curving upward and backward in such a manner as 

 to present, in the inferior jaw, an irregularity analogous to the preceding 

 (Fig. 320). We have proposed, when describing the first specimen, to 



Fig. 320.— Reversed parrot mouth. 



give it, for this reason, the name reversed parrot mouth.' It 

 appears to be rather frequent in the mules in the department of the 

 Gers, where our colleague, M. Faulon^ has recently noticed it, and where 

 the subjects which present it are called beffes. M. Brissot,^ veterinarian 

 at Suippes, has also noticed a very remarkable example. 



Reversed parrot mouth seems to be due to a slight prognathism of 

 the inferior jaw, or, again, to the absence of the superior pincers. The 



1 G. Barrier, Sur le bee de perroquet renvers6, in Bulletin de la Soci6t^ centrale de m^decine 

 v6t6rinaire, p. 134 ; Recueil de medecine vet(irinaire, annee 1885. 



2 Faulon, Bulletin de la Soci6t6 centrale de m(?deeine v6terinaire, p. 471, in Recueil de mede- 

 cine v6t6rinaire, ann6e 1888. Rapport de M. Chucliu. 



» Brissot, Recueil de mSdecine v6t6rinaire, 1885 ; Bulletin de la Soci6t6 centrale de medecine 

 v6t6rinaire, p. 192. 



