. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. Fig. 3.—Left fore foot oi Arctonyx, sliowiug arrangemeDt of pads Fig. 4.—Left hind foot of Arctonyx, ,, „ „ The fore feet of Arctonyx (fig. 3) are, of course, fossorial, with big chwvs, but their structure differs evidently from that of the genera Meles, Taxidea, and Mellivoixc, as those are described by Pocock (1920). The digits are connected about to the middle of the digital pads. The pollex is set further up the foot than the other digits, -which are almost on a level with
. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. Fig. 3.—Left fore foot oi Arctonyx, sliowiug arrangemeDt of pads Fig. 4.—Left hind foot of Arctonyx, ,, „ „ The fore feet of Arctonyx (fig. 3) are, of course, fossorial, with big chwvs, but their structure differs evidently from that of the genera Meles, Taxidea, and Mellivoixc, as those are described by Pocock (1920). The digits are connected about to the middle of the digital pads. The pollex is set further up the foot than the other digits, -which are almost on a level with each other, but the former is as closely connected to the side of the foot as the others hiter se. The digital pads are well defined, and the space between them and the plantar * The median groove at the lower side of the rhlnarial disk onigJit be an artefact produced by the drying of the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd
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