An introduction to the osteology of the Mammalia : being the substance of the course of lectures delivered at the Royal college of surgeons of England in 1870 / By William Henry Flower.

  • Flower, William Henry, 1831-1899.
Date:
1870
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    Flo. 91.—Bones of the manus of the Beaver (jOastor canadeusis), j. In the Cape Hyrax (Fig. 92, p. 264) there is an additional carpal bone {ce), which appears to be an os centrale, though in form and situation it looks as if it were a dismemberment of the proximal part of the trapezoid {td). The scaphoid and lunar are not united, and there are five digits, of which the first is extremely small, and has only one minute nodular phalanx. In another species, H. dorsalis, the pollex is reduced to a short metacarpal; the fifth digit has but two phalanges, and the centrale is united with the trapezoid. The ungual phalanges of the three middle digits are small, and somewhat conical in form. In the Elephant the manus is short and broad, the carpal bones are massive and square, and articulate by very fiat surfaces ; they consist of scaphoid, lunar and cuneiform, a pisiform and the usual four bones of the distal row, all