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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. 1 It 

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

 Gers, where our colleague, M. Faulon 2 has recently noticed it, and where 

 the subjects which present it are called beffes. M. Brissot, 3 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 renverse\ in Bulletin de la Socie"t centrale de me'decine 

 ve'te'rinaire, p. 134; Recueil de medecine vterinaire, annee 1885. 



2 Faulon, Bulletin de la Soci6t6 centrale de medecine v6t6rinaire, p. 471, in Recueil de mede- 

 cine ve'te'rinaire, ann6e 1888. Rapport de M. Chuchu. 



8 Brissot, Recueil de medecine v6t6rinaire, 1885 ; Bulletin de la Societe centrale de medecine 

 v6t6rinaire, p. 192. 



