CHAPTER YIII 



THE FORE LBIBS. (Continued.) 



(Plates XXXI-XXXVIII, LIV, LV and LVI). 



The fore foot in all the Dmocerata is larger tlian the hind foot. The 

 bones composing- it are comparatively short and massive. There were 

 five well developed digits, as in Proboscidians, but the carpal bones were 

 interlocked with the metacarpals, as iji Perissodactyls. The general 

 appearance of the fore foot in D'moceras mlrahUe is well shown in Plate 

 LIV, figure 1. The hind foot is represented in figure 2 of the same Plate. 

 The feet Avere plantigrade, as in the elephant, and in their more important 

 characters were much like those of ConjpliodoH. 



The Carpal Bones. 



(Plates XXXI-XXXIV; and woodcuts 112-124, below.) 



There are eight separate carpal bones in the fore foot of all the 

 Diiwcerata, ancl, a ninth, the central bone, may be separate in very 

 young animals, and,- in jidults, either lost or consolidated with the 

 scaphoid, or the trapezoid. 



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