26 Organs of the Animal Body : 
their Forms ami Uses. 
Fig. 13. — Side view of Bones heloiv 
the Knee {Horse), viz. the end of 
the Shank-hone icith the two float- 
ing Bones (Sesamoids') behind, 
the Large Pasterns, the Coronet 
Bones, the Pedal Bone, icith the 
Navicular Bone behind it. 
Fig. 14. — Bach vieio of the 
same Bones. 
Compare these figures of the bones below the knee of the 
horse with the next (Fig. 15), which shows the type of the similar 
bones in the limbs of the ox and sheep. 
And again, compare the last figure (15), with the drawing of 
the same bones from the dog (Fig. 16), in which the bones below 
the knee are split into five pieces instead of being divided 
through the centre only. 
In passing, it may be remarked that the highest type of form 
of the limbs is that in which the last bones are divided into five 
fingers or toes. This subject is interesting, but too intricate 
to be further considered. 
The hind limbs, it will be seen in the skeleton, are joined 
to the trunk by actual contact of bone, the junction being at the 
hip-joint, which is formed with the bone of the thigh and the 
hip-bone. Next to the thigh-bone there are the leg-bones, 
forming with the thigh-bones the stifle-joints (the knees of 
man) ; then the hock-joint (ankle of man) ; and below, a set of 
bones similar to those which have been referred to in the 
description of the fore-limb. 
