Field Notebook: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania 1914
Page 43
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Transcription
Spent the evening at Ungui's house to see his (maul Chond tracks. All appear to me like of the Cheirotherium type with five toes. Ungui thinks some have six toes but cannot see it that way. A peculiarity of some of the tracks are the long fingers with the 3 outside toes much curved and turned outwards. It is usually these thin toes that show. The prints of the toes show plainly and seem to have had broad nails. Toes that dug deeply into the mud. The tail often shows in the centre of the track as a slender drag. Sometimes the entire under side of the belly drags and at times there are crescentic additions as if the shoulder hooves shored into the mud. There may be five kinds of tracks. Ungui however makes many more, 10- including are the tracks made by lips.