364 DR. J. MURIE ON THE [May 26, 
The cannon-bone of the pectoral extremity is an elegant subcircular 
rod, 8°1 inches long, and grooved behind for more than three-quarters 
of its proximal length. 
The six phalanges of the digits present no features worthy of re- 
mark, further than that they have sesamoid bones appended _poste- 
riorly behind their articulating surfaces. The first phalanx is 
1-8 inch, the second 1 inch in length. 
(6) Posterior linb.—The formation of the pelvis is of the same 
long, narrow, and light build characterizing both Antelopes and Deer. 
The brim has a blunt oval figure, the conjugate diameters being, 
however, nearly equal. The elongated neck of the ilium has a blade 
with moderately broad wings, and everted anterior superior spinous 
processes (a.s.sp); the external muscular impressions on this are 
divided mesially by an elevated ridge. The acetabulum is wide, 
shallow, and with deep synovial notch. The symphysial portion of 
the pubic bones is flattish, wide, and indeed rather broad above ; it 
is 3 inches long, with a roughened symphysis ; the subpubic angle 
is obtuse. There is only a moderate expansion of the usual tripodal- 
figured ruminant ischium ; the tuber ischii (ti) is broadly rounded, 
and not prominent as is the external ischial spine (e. sp). 
The pelvic measurements are as undernoted :— 
inches. 
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Greatest breadth (crests of ilia). . 
Distance between external ischial spines 
Brim of pelvis (ant. post. diam.) .......... 
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The head of the femur is subglebular and small. The great tro- 
chanter, laterally flattened, rises 3 an inch higher than the head. The 
trochanteric fossa is, as in other ruminants, wide, but only moderately 
deep. The stoutish shaft, though less so than in Dama vulgaris, has 
usually a slight forward bend; and the nutrient foramen obliquely 
penetrates the front of the shaft at its upper fourth. The linea aspera 
is both broad and well defined. Though the distal extremity of the 
thigh-bone does not offer such comparative magnitude as in the Gi- 
raffe, its condyles nevertheless are large and backwardly extending ; 
the outer is the larger and most tuberose. The groove and pit for 
the popliteus muscle is not so well marked as in Dama vulgaris. 
As regards the fibula, in its non-development of shaft, depending 
spicule representing its upper extremity or head, and inferior kidney- 
shaped and separate bone homologous with its styloid process the 
structure resembles that of Sheep. 
The tibia has a length of 10°3 inches. The head is large, the 
anterior tuberosity or cnemial prominence moderate and sharp- 
edged in front. The groove for the tibialis-anticus tendon is deep 
and broad. The shaft is stoutish, convex anteriorly, but doubly 
