Note 1 — X MODERN HORSES AND THEIR ANCESTORS

The names “malander” and “salander” have been recently applied by zoological writers, apparently by misconception, to these “callosities” or “chestnuts.” Those names are used by veterinary surgeons to describe a diseased condition of this part of the horse’s leg (Italian “mal andare”), and do not apply to the “chestnut” itself, which is sometimes called “castor.”