24 Organs of the Animal Body : their Forms and Uses. 
Fig. 8. — Single Loin-hone, front view — showing the Upper Spine 
as well as the Side Spines. 
known by their long side-spines, which serve to partly fill up 
the gap left between the last ribs and the hips. 
These figures show the loin-bones together, and also a single 
one. Next to the loins is the sacrum (Fig. 9), which is made 
Fig. 9. — Side View of Bones forming the Sacrum. 
1, process forniinR liip; 2, point of the croup; 3, sliaft of tlie hipbone; 
4 cavity for head of thigh-bone ; 6, eplne of ischium. 
