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EVOLUTION OF THE HORSE. 



[Hipparion, Fig. 376), whose feet were in this condition 

 (Figs. 379, 380, 381 and 382). Fig. 383 gives a front 

 view of the horse's foot. Sir WilHam Flower points out 

 that the European representative [Hipparion gracile) of 



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Fig. 382. — {After Gauciry.) Front and 

 Side Views of Left Fore Foot of 

 HipPARiON Gracile (|th real length). 

 The lettering is the same as that of 

 Fig. 386. 



Fig. 383. — Front View of Left 

 Fore Foot of Horse, (-^th real 

 length) . 



this fossil family could not have been an ancestor of the 

 horse ; for, besides differences in the teeth, it possessed 

 a deep depression in front of the eye, on each side of 

 the face, in which depression was lodged a large tear or 

 scent gland, similar to that found in several kinds of deer 



