FEET OF DOMESTIC DOGS. 483 
length and width of the foot. It is comparatively long, for 
example, in the Greyhound, and broad in the Aberdeen Terrier. 
The foot of the latter is exceedingly short, owing mainly to the 
extreme abbreviation of the third and fourth toes, in accordance 
with the modern fashion for shortening the feet and aligning the 
metacarpus with the radius. This fashion has also changed the 
slope of the digital pads, so that they incline nearly at right 
angles to the long axis of the foot, and has thickened or deepened 
the plantar pad. These points may be seen by comparing the 
Text-figure 3. 
A. Left fore paw of Aberdeen Terrier, from its inner side. 
B. The same of Bulldog. 
C. The same of Clumber Spaniel. 
D. The same of Airedale Terrier. 
rofile figures of the feet of the Airedale and Aberdeen Terriers 
and the Bulldog with that of the Clumber Spaniel, which, in the 
inclination of the digital pads and the depth of the plantar pad, 
shows more resemblance to the paw of a wolf. The largest and 
the smallest feet examined were respectively those of a St. Bernard 
and of a Manchester terrier. The former do not differ materially 
from those of the Clumber Spaniel, except that the median digits 
- are shorter and approach those of the Aberdeen Terrier. 
Proc. Zoou. Soc.—1914, No. XXXII. 32 
