External Characters of Ruminant Arliodactjhi. lili 



interest, being typically Ovine or Cai)rine in structure^ -with 

 the narrow '' philtrum '■* well developed. 



There is a well-marked saZ>caw6?fl/^/anfl? above the anus as 

 in Pseudois. 



The gland-like termination of the penis (fig. 4, C) is very 

 like that of Ovis viynei in shape and curvature, but the 

 filiform termination of the urethra is a little shorter than 

 in that species. 



According to Lydekker, the males of this animal are not 

 malodorous (Cat. Ungulates, i. p. 123). That is quite 

 untrue. The males have a very decidedly goaty odour in 

 the breeding season. It is also untrue that the typical race 

 of this species is distinguished by " an indistinct median 

 face stripe." A pair imported from Morocco and exhibited 

 in the Gardens a few years ago showed no trace of such a 

 stripe. 



Genus Capra, Linn. (p. 864j. 



I have nothing to add to what I said in 1910 regarding 

 the suppression of the preorbital, pedal, and inguinal glands 

 in various species of this genus. 



The rhinarium conforms in type to that of Ovis and 

 Ammotragus, the " philtrum " being better defined than in 

 Pseudois. In an example of C. cegagrus from Crete, I found 

 the supranarial extension of the rhinarium (fig. 4, L) larger 

 than in most examples of domesticated goats ; but this 

 varies to a certain degree in the latter, as also does the 

 width of the naked area of skin beneath the nostrils laterally 



The subcaudal gland was a deeper pocket than those 

 observed in Ammotragus and Pseudois. 



The penis (fig. 4, E) also is constructed very mucli as in 

 those genera, and has a well-defined, but rather short, glan- 

 dular termination, which, on the right side, as in the other 

 genera, curls beneath the tubular filiform termination of 

 the urethra, which is shorter than in Ovis, Ammotragus, and 

 Pseudois. 



Genus Hemitragus, Hodgson. 



Hemilragus jemlaicus, Hodgs. (p. 866). 



Additional specimens confirm my previous statements 

 with regard to the suppression of the preorbital, inguinal, 

 and pedal glands. 



Hodgson's assertion that the rhinarium (fig. 4, I, Kj is 

 larger in Hemitragus than in Capra is perfectly true. The 

 supranarial extension is considerably deeper, and, similurlv, 



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