924 MR. R. I. POCOCK ON THE FEET 
Text-figure 7. 
Alopex lagopus. 
A. Right fore foot. C. Rhinarvium from the front. 
B. Right hind foot. D. Rhinarium from the side. 
digits, and, like the thickenings in question, it is clothed with 
longish hairs *. 
The feet are shorter and more “ dog-like” than in Vulpes and 
Otocyon, owing mainly to the third and fourth toes being shorter 
and a little more widely separable. The digital pads are small 
and the plantar pad is a little wider than in Vulpes and more 
overgrown posteriorly, so that it appears more deeply hollowed 
out. The carpal pad is nearer the plantar pad, and is small and 
irregularly semicircular in outline. Claws very long. 
The rhinariwm in profile view is nearly rectangularly pointed, 
and much shorter than in any other species examined. From 
the front view the summit is mesially nearly flat with widely- 
rounded angles; the inferior edge is not strongly angled, the 
* Tn the specimen examined, an old female which had been over ten years in the 
Gardens, the hair on the integumental thickenings was worn off by walking on 
concrete. But the outline of the digital pads could be distinguished by their scaly 
pattern, the thickenings being pitted with hair-follicles. 
