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belonged to it, to be about the size of a hare, and to have agreed in its 

 structure with the feet of the preceding species. 



No remains of the hind-feet of Anoplotherium minimum were met with. 



A thigh-bone is frequently found in the plaster quarries, which differs 

 from that of palaotherium. Its upper part is flatter forwards, the neck 

 is less distinct, the great trochanter is not raised above the head, the 

 small trochanter is compressed, and placed entirely on the inner edge of 

 the bone, beneath the head ; and it has no third trochanter. The ge- 

 neral characters of this bone were found to agree better with the corre- 

 sponding bone in the camel, than with that of any other animal ; agree- 

 ing, in this respect, with the large fossil didactyle foot above mentioned. 

 From the agreement also of that foot with this thigh-bone, in size, he 

 concludes that both may have belonged to the same , animal, which he 

 doubts not was Anoplotherium commune. 



From the same quarries was also obtained the lower head of an os 

 femoris, undoubtedly of Anoplotherium medium, but resembling very much 

 that of the antelope; and, from other characters of the legs of this ani- 

 mal, there is also reason to suppose that it possessed, all the lightness of 

 the antelope. 



These quarries also supplied him with the tibiae of A, magnum, A. 

 commune, and A. minus. Besides these, M. Cuvier found a tibia, which 

 appeared to be intermediate between that of the A. commune and A. me- 

 dium, the species of which is not yet determined. 



These animals, as well as the palaotheria, had a complete and dis- 

 tinct fibula, in which they agree with the whole of the class of pa- 

 chydermata : but, in these animals, this bone is distinguishable by its 

 lower head haying two articular faces; one for the astragalus, and the 

 other for the os calcis. 



Three carpal, and some metacarpal bones, which were found in dif- 

 ferent stones, appeared to be more or less analogous with those of a hog. 

 A nice and careful comparison, however, made it appear that these 

 feones possessed an intermediate place between those of the hog and some 



