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modern fauns so constantly as in ancient fauns, and are 

 usually represented as pendulous structures, admirably 

 shown in the drawing of a faun in the Capitol (fig. 48). 

 In all cases these pendulous skin tags in the statues are 



FIG. 48. -A Faun and Goat from the Capitol, with 

 cervical auricles. 



placed along the anterior border of the sterno-mastoid 

 muscle. It is, of course, a matter for discussion whether 

 the sculptors obtained their notion of the cervical 

 auricles from human models or from goats. In some 



