Rxlernal CJiaraciers of Ruminant Artio'hwfi/ki. -lil 



Mcll developed as in the male. Their secretion had a 

 decidedly punj^ent and nn pleasantly mnsteline odour. 



The rinnanum is ^vell developed and " bovine.'^ From 

 the anterior aspect the nj)per marj;in is strongly conve'x and 

 the area beneath the nostrils is luesially grooved and very 

 wide — wider, in fact, than the area above those orifices — and 

 visible to a considerable extent iu profile view. Fjom the 

 dorsal side the anterior margin is convexly truncated, and 

 the pc stei-ior margin is straight between the posterioi' angles 

 ot' the nostrils, the hair of the nose not extending foiwards 

 beyond that line. 



Genus Boset.apiiis, Blaiuv. 

 Boselaphus tru(jocameh<s, Pall. (j). W.IQ)). 



In a male example the yreorhital gland had a much 

 shallower \nt than in the female described in 1910, and was 

 without definite lids. The gland itself, moreover, was not 

 regularly heart-shaped, but was longer than thick and of 

 irregular form. 



The rhinarium (fig. 1, A, B, C) is large and "bovine," 

 closely resembling that of Tetraceros, but more protuberant 

 in front, and, beneath the noL-trils, laterally and with a 

 wider internarial se[)tum. On its dorsal side the hair 

 advances a little way between the nostrils, so that the poste- 

 rior border of the rhinarium is concave. 



In 1910 I briefly described the glandular nature of tlie 

 skin between the ialse hoofs of the hind feet in the female. 

 The same feature is ])resent in the miJe where the skin 

 between the widely separated false hoois is clothed with 

 longish hair, is very thick and glandular, and niesially 

 iolded. In the fore loot there is no trace of the gland, the 

 false hoofs being larger and the hair restricted to the nairow 

 area between them. This gland (fig. 3, B) on the hind foot 

 of Boselap/ins clearly represents an earlier stage of the 

 evolution of the pair of pouch-like glands present in Tetra- 

 ceros. The presence of sinalar glands in Taurotruyus and 

 Strepsiceros (cf. infra) serves to link Boseluplivs Mith the 

 African Tragelaphines, and refutes, if relutation be needed, 

 Kutimeyer's claim that Boselaphus belongs to a diti'erent 

 group. 



Inyulnal glands are absent and there are two pairs of 

 in am nice . 



'l\\c penis (fig. 1, D, E) agrees, generally speaking, with 

 the sketch and description published by Gerhardt (op. cit. 



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