CATALOGUE 



OF 



UNGULATE S 



VOL. lY. 



SUBOEDER ARTIODACTYLA {continued). 

 Section A. — PECORA (continued). 



Family IV.— CERVID^. 



Pecora, iu which the cranial appendages — generally 

 restricted to the males, and in a few cases absent even in 

 that sex — take the form of (usually) branched, bony, solid, 

 deciduous antlers, supported on permanent skin-covered 

 pedicles arising from the frontal bones; upper canines 

 generally present, very long in those genera which lack 

 antlers in both sexes ; lower canines with simple, uncleft 

 crowns (fig. 1) ; cheek-teeth generally low-crowned (brachyo- 

 dont) ; lateral toes generally present, with the constituent 

 bones fully developed ; lateral metacarpals wanting either 

 upper or lower ends ; * gall-bladder nearly always wanting ; 

 placenta with few cotyledons. 



In all cases, with the possible exception of Moschus, 

 there are two pairs of teats, and inguinal glands are invari- 

 ably wanting. Face-glands are nearly always present 

 (absent in Cajyreolus) ; tarsal, metatarsal, and interdigital 



* The term plesiometacarpalian is applied to those genera in 

 which the upper ends of the lateral metacarpals persist, and telemeta- 

 carpalian to those in which the reverse condition obtains. 



IV. B 



