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and support the head and neck ; when either acts alone, it indines 

 the h'^.ad and neck on that side. It is tlie muscle on which, with 

 the tri^ezius in the next cut, the form of the upper part of the neck 

 principally depends. 



2. The inferior oblique (taking an oblique direction). A deeper- 

 seated muscle on each side of the neck, from the first to the second 

 bones of the neck. 



3. The superior oblique. Likewise a deeper-seated muscle, from 

 the ftrst bone of the neck to the portion of the parietal bone which 

 forms the poll. Both acting together, they elevate the head ; — either 

 acting alone, turns it on that side. When the hand is passed 

 down the side of the cervical ligament, even near to the poll, the 

 muscles of the neck will be observed to become rapidly thicker. 

 Tiie thickness of the neck of the ox lies principally below ; so it is 

 in idtnost all ruminants, and particularly in the deer tribe ; there- 

 fore these muscles are large. 



4. A portion of the levator humeri (the elevator of the arm), re- 

 versed. It arises by an aponeurotic expansion from the parietal 

 ridge, and by a strong tendon, from the mastoid process of the 

 temporal bone, and from the four first bones of the neck, and, con- 

 necting itself with the ligament of the neck, it goes to the muscles 

 of the shoulders and the upper bone of the arm. When the head 

 is made a fixed point, one of them, acting alone, draws forward the 

 shoulder and arm ; when the shoulder is made the fixed point, it 



