THE AMERICA X XA TL'RAIJST. XXX V 1 1 1. 



show all the 

 ilear end. Tb 



in front of it. Occupying; a position a])o\e the base of the niid- 



projects the most posteriorly. The remaining two are sejiarated 

 b\- a cleft, which is continued above by a <;roo\e on the anterior 

 surface, to be pierced obliquely from above, downwards, by the 

 usual arterial foramen. The mid-trochlea is the lowest of all 

 three, and rather the most anterior. Thev are all stron,i;ly 

 marked by median grooves intended for the corresponding sur- 

 face on each proximal phalanx of the digits. 



A scale-like fir.st metatarsal is suspended b\ a ligament 

 attached to its entire anterior free border, to the'nuier inferior 

 posterior margin of the shaft of the bone. It supj^orts a feebly 

 dexeloped phalanx and claw representing the hallux digit. As 

 for the three anterior toes, they are composed upon the usual 

 formula for the number of joints as found in this member in the 



ngth of 



and its claw 



the skeleton o 

 Us-- Hallux 



neters, the 



middle 



the claw 0.9 ; finally the 



other intep 

 •ed-throated 

 reat number 



