The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 10 (of 10)Beddard, Frank E. (Frank Evers)
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The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 10 (of 10)
Beddard, Frank E. (Frank Evers)
Animals; Mammals
In all there are but two functional digits on the feet, and the metacarpals
and metatarsals of these are fused. There are no upper incisors, and
canines in the upper jaw are not universal, and generally small. Horns are
confined to this group of the Selenodontia.[196] The premolar teeth are of
a simpler form than the molars. The stomach has four chambers, of which two
may be regarded as belonging to its cardiac half and two to the pyloric.
The former are, in the first place, a large paunch or rumen, followed by a
smaller reticulum, so called on account of the network arrangement of the
folds of its lining membrane. Connected with the latter, and constituting
the first part of the pyloric half of the stomach, is the psalterium or
"manyplies," so called on account of the longitudinal folds, like the
leaves of a {291} book, into which its lining membrane is raised. Finally
there is the abomasum, out of which proceeds the small intestine. Garrod
has observed that the chamber of the stomach which varies most among the
Pecora is the psalterium. This chamber is specially large in _Bos_, and
particularly small in the Antelopes _Nannotragus_ and _Cephalophus_. But
its variation relates more especially to the folds of its mucous membrane.
These folds are of varying lengths and have a definite arrangement There
may be as many as five sets of laminae of regular depths. The most simple
psalterium is that of _Cephalophus_, where there are only two sets of
laminae of different sizes, a deeper set and a very much shallower set;
this form is termed by Garrod "duplicate." Most common is the
"quadruplicate" arrangement, with four sets of laminae of differing depths.
In all Pecora the liver is but little divided by fissures.
FAM. 6. CERVIDAE.--The Deer tribe is a very extensive one, and, with the
exception of Africa and Australia, world-wide in distribution.[197]
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