300 ON THE HYOID BONE OF THE ELEPHANT. 
element, downwards and forwards. This is elongately triangular in 
shape, 6 inches long, $ inch broad at its middle, and tapering to a 
Hyoid bones in Indian Elephant. 
point in front, where it gives attachment to a hardly specialized stylo- 
hyoid ligament and serves for the origin of the stylo-glossus muscle. 
The interval between the tip of this stylohyal and the lesser cornu 
(cartilaginous) of the hyoid bone is 5 inches, or a little less than the 
length of the process itself. As it descends in its downward and 
forward course, this tapering stylohyal curves slightly on itself, turn- 
ing a little outwards. 
The accompanying figure will explain the condition. 
The descending digastric process, as it may be termed, may be 
compared to the posteriorly directed process of the stylohyal in the 
Ungulata. It differs from it, however, in one essential particular, 
which is that in the latter it does not give origin to the digastric 
muscle, but only to the stylohyoid; whilst in the Elephant the digas- 
