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Show Feet webbed, the outermost toe three times as broad as the rest, the innermost twice as broad. Toes all subequal, covered with hair on their upper surface ; but the spaces between the fingers are bare, and so is the whole plantar surface of the foot. Between the toes the cartilage is emarginate. On the outermost and innermost toes are the rudiments of nails only ; on the three middle ones are linear, blunted, semicylindrical nails close to the end of the digit, before the cartilaginous epiphyses commence. Tail short, conical, covered with hair between the feet. N.B. The example described was small, scarcely of middle size, and weighed only 3 2 | pounds; from this the measurements were taken. In larger specimens all the limbs were larger, but maintained the same proportions. ft. in. Length from nose to tip of middle digit of " pes " . . 3 9| ,, „ to end of tail 3 2| „ of tail 2 of " pes," to tip of " pollex " 9 Breadth of " pes " at tarsal joint* .... 2-f ,, at distal extremity .... 5 " P e s " from tarsal joint-f to the origin of nail of middle finger 6| Length of nail of middle toe Oy7^ Breadth of nail of middle toe 0£- Length of " manus " 1 0 Breadth of "manus " close to body"f 3f Breadth of " manus" from the apex to the point where the first hairs grow 6 Length of " manus " to the origin of the nail 9 Length of nails Oy^- Breadth of nails Oy1^ Distance from median point of upper lip to opening of nose above ly^ Length of " septum narium " Oy2^ Distance from median point of upper lip to anterior edge of orbit. 2\ From outer edge of orbit to edge of cornea§ 1 From median point of upper lip to origin of ear .... 5 j, „ to angle of mouth .. 2-JSJ Length of ear \f<- „ whisker 3i „ „ in larger specimen 5^ Girth of head behind ear 1 3 „ body at shoulder 2 Oy2^ >, „ anus 10J Length from mouth to anus 3 1-2 I submit that there can be no doubt that this description refers to * " Pes latus ad lacertos." t "Alacertis." X " Ad insertionem armi." § " A cantho majore ad minorem." |
