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PLEISTOCENE MAMMALIA. 



h. The Posterior Limb. (Text-figures 13-16.) 



hi the femur there is a distinct neck separating the prominent rounded head 

 from the rest of the bone, this being an exceptional feature among Ungulates. 

 The great trochanter is very large, the second merely indicated by a roughened 

 ridge. There is no trace of a third trochanter. The condyles are very large. 



Fig. 14. — Left patella from Harrington, preserved in Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge. } natural size 



Cb 



CL 



I'm. 15. — Ri^lit tibia. A front view: Q seen from behind, i natural size. From Barrington, 

 preserved in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge. ", surfaces for articulation with condyles of femur. 

 b, surface for articulation with distal end of fibula : <\ surface for articulation with proximal end of fibula; 

 d, surface for articulation with astragalus : c, cnemial crest. 



