. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. Front view of the cranium of the Clious'mgha. (From a specimen in Loud. Coll. Surg. Museum.) ture and outline, and in those of the Cabrit or Prong-horn Antelope (A. furcifcr), we have an approach toward the cervine type. The prong is situated about half way up, and may be considered as analogous to the brow- antler ; immediately below it the root is rough, scabrous, and nodulated, being co- vered also by a hairy integument (fig. 313.). Fig. Horns of the Cabrit. (From a specimen in Lond. Coll. Surg. Museum.) In the
. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. Front view of the cranium of the Clious'mgha. (From a specimen in Loud. Coll. Surg. Museum.) ture and outline, and in those of the Cabrit or Prong-horn Antelope (A. furcifcr), we have an approach toward the cervine type. The prong is situated about half way up, and may be considered as analogous to the brow- antler ; immediately below it the root is rough, scabrous, and nodulated, being co- vered also by a hairy integument (fig. 313.). Fig. Horns of the Cabrit. (From a specimen in Lond. Coll. Surg. Museum.) In the Buffaloes the horns acquire a pro- digious size, and the cuticular sheath forms, in some instances, a thick envelope over the entire forhead. Vertebral column and bones of tJie trunk. — Considerable disparity prevails in the length of different portions of the spine, depending upon the comparative elongation of the individual bones, and not upon their number. The following table, selected from Cuvier, illustrates the trifling deviations in a nume- rical point of view, — the seven cervicals being added and indicated in the totals : — D. t» s. c» TOTALS. 12 7 4 17 47 12 7 5 12 43 13 6 3 14 43 13 6 4 16 46 14: 5 4 18 48 13 6 4 14 44 13 5 4 14 43 13 6 4 12 42 13 6 4 16 46 13 6 5 18 49 Camel - Vicugna Moschus Red Deer Giraffe - Gazelle - Chousingha Goat Sheep Ox In Camelidae the bodies of the vertebras of the neck are much lengthened (fig. 323.), but it is in the Giraffe (fig. 34-5.) that we see the most remarkable conformity to the cer- vical type in this respect. The spinous pro- cesses of this division of the column are lessened in all mammiferous animals in pro- portion to the length of the cervix, and therefore we find them in the above men- tioned ruminants almost entirely effaced (ex- cept in the seventh vertebrae) to admit of free motion backward. This action is further facilitated in the Camels and in the Giraffe by the ball and socket-like conformation of the arti
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