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secreting surface. The secretion from the glands has a 

 strong musky odor, and these suborbital pits reach their 

 greatest size in animals which possess an acute sense of 

 smell; especially is this so in animals such as deer and 



-An ^c 



FIG. 24. Showing the arrangement of parts at the inner canthus in different 



mammals. 



antelopes, in whom smell is what may be termed a " distance- 

 sense," in contradistinction to a contact-sense, such as it is 

 in most of the Carnivora. These odoriferous glandular 

 organs probably form a means by which a stray member 



