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is skin-covered, and has muscle-fibre attached 

 to it"^ Dr Sutton calls attention to the fact that 

 on ancient statues of fauns and satyrs cervical 

 auricles are sometimes found, and he figures the 

 head of a satyr from the British Museum, carved 

 long before the days of anatomy, where a sessile 

 ear on the neck is quite distinct. A still better 

 illustration may be seen in the Art Museum at 

 Boston on a full-sized cast of a faun, belonging 

 to the later Greek period ; and there are other ex- 

 amples in the same building. One interest of 

 these neck-ears in statues is that they are not, as 

 a rule, modelled after the human ear, but taken 

 from the cervical-ear of the goat, from which the 

 general idea of the faun was derived. This shows 

 that neck-ears were common on the goats of that 

 period — as they are on goats to this day. The 

 occurrence of neck-ears in goats is no more than 

 one would expect. Indeed, one would look for 

 them not only in goats and in Man, but in all the 

 Mammalia, for so far as their bodies are concerned 

 all the higher animals are near relations. Observa- 

 tions on vestigial structures in animals are sadly 

 wanting ; but these cervical-ears are also certainly 

 found in the horse, pig, sheep, and others. 



That the human ear was not always the squat 

 * Sutton, Evolution and Disease^ p. 87 



