130 THE ARTISTIC ANATOMY OF ANIMALS 



We break with this latter custom, and, without taking into 

 account the tendency above indicated, we will commence 

 our analysis with the study of the aspect of the trunk, 

 which corresponds to the anterior aspect of the same region 

 in man. 



The first muscles usually presented for study to artists 

 being the pectorals, it is their homologues that we will first 

 describe here. We will afterwards describe the abdominal 

 region, then the muscles which occupy the dorsal aspect 

 of the trunk. With regard to the lateral surfaces, they will 

 be found, by this fact alone, almost completely studied, 

 since the muscles of the two preceding (back and abdomen), 

 spreading out, so to speak, over them, contribute to their 

 formation. Nothing further will remain but to incorporate 

 with them the muscles of the shoulder ; but these will be 

 studied in connection with the anterior limbs, from which 

 they cannot be separated. 



The neck, in man, may be considered in an isolated fashion, 

 because, on account of its narrowness in proportion to the 

 width of the shoulders, it is clearly differentiated from the 

 trunk ; for this reason we combine the study of it with 

 that of the head. In animals, because of the absence or 

 slight development of the clavicles, the neck is generally 

 too much confounded with the region of the shoulders to 

 make it legitimate to separate it from that region in too 

 marked a fashion. It will, accordingly, be considered next. 



We will then undertake the study of the muscles of the 

 limbs, and end with the myology of the head. 



