THE C4IANT DEER. 



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i. The Posterior Limb (Text-figs. 28 — 30). 



The femur (Text-fig. 28) lias very slight indications of a neck. The great 

 trochanter is very large, the lesser very small, and as in other Artiodactyls there 

 is no 3rd trochanter. The upper end of the tibia (Text-fig. 29) is characteristically 

 bent. 



In the character of the digits the pes (Text-fig. 25b) is analogous to the 

 manus. The astragalus has both proximal and distal surfaces pulley-like as in other 

 Artiodactyls. 



Table of Measueements. 





Skeleton from 



Rockbarton, Kil- 





Enniscorthy 



mallock, Limerick, 





(Sedgwick Mus., 



254, 1904 





Cambridge). 



(Nat. Mus., Dublin). 



Femue. 





1. Length measured from head to internal condyle . 



43-7 



45'2 



2. Transverse diameter at condyle 



123 



11-8 



3. Transverse measurement across head and great 







trochanter ...... 



17-0 



15-5 



Tibia. 







1. Length ....... 



43-7 



46-3 



2. Right to left diameter at proximal end 



131 



12-2 



3. Antero-posterior diameter at proximal end 







measured from notch between articular surface 







for femur to top of crest 



10-5 



10-2 



4. Right to left diameter at distal end . 



8-75 



1 



8-2 



1 



The Pes. 



1. Length of calcaneum . . . . 



2. Maximum tran-iverse diameter of calcaneum 



(oblique measurement) . . . . 



3. Right to left diameter of astragalus 



measured at tibial articular surface 



4. Length of cannon-bone . 



5. Transverse measurement of cannon-bone 



at proximal end ..... 



6. Transverse measurement of cannon-bone 



at distal end ..... 



7. Length of 1st phalanx measured in middle 



of outer surface ..... 



8. Length of 2nd phalanx measured in middle 



of outer surface ..... 



9. Length of ungual phalanx measured along 



inner edge ...... 



