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384 ON LOPHOTRAGUS MICHIANUS. 
that family, he having demonstrated that in it the external and middle 
cuneiform bones blend with the naviculo-cuboid to form a single bone. 
The same condition exactly exists in Hlaphodus cephalophus, the inner- 
most cuneiform bone remaining free. But, strange to relate, in my 
specimen of Michie’s Deer, on both sides, this internal cuneiform bone 
is completely anchylosed with the metatarsus, a further specialization 
than is found in any other ruminant, so far as I can make out. 
In Michie’s Deer no trace of the lateral metacarpal rudiments 
could be detected. It possesses thirteen pairs of ribs, six lumbar 
vertebre, six ankylosed sacrals, and nine caudals, making forty-one 
vertebre in all. The bones, in the specimen under consideration, 
especially those of the limbs, are extremely porous and badly marked; 
nevertheless, on making a section of the head of the metatarsus, it is 
apparent that the internal tarsal cuneiform bone has so completely 
fused with it as to leave no line of demarcation. In the Paris speci- 
mens of Elaphodus the tarsus exactly resembles that of Cervulus, and 
the lateral metacarpals are very nearly lost. 
In the young female from Moupin the milk canine teeth are in 
place, their permanent successors appearing, in the dry skull, above 
them. In the male of the same age from Ningpo, the tusks have a 
remarkably permanent appearance, and there is no evidence from 
the condition of the maxillary bones that they belong to the milk 
series. Such being the case, it must be presumed that the milk 
canines in the male are shed earlier than in the females, as it is not 
in accordance with any known facts that they should have persistent 
pulps which would remove any necessity for their replacement. 
Anatomy of the Alimentary Canal and other Viscera. 
The muffle is more considerable than in the Elaphine Deer, but 
resembles that of the Rusine and Muntjacs in extending upwards 
along the outer border of each nostril as far as its superior margin. 
The canine tusks protrude an inch below the upper lip, and mark the 
lower lip at the spots at which they come into contact with them. 
The palate in front of the intermolar region is transversely ridged’ 
by folds of the mucous membrane, slightly crenulated at their free 
backwardly directed edges. These folds are deficient in the middle 
line; and those on one side are not continuous with those of the other, 
but with the spaces which intervene between them. The intermolar 
region and the palatal surface behind it are smooth, and black instead 
of flesh-coloured, as it is anteriorly. 
The tongue is like that in most ruminating animals, broad near the 
tip, then narrower, and again slightly broader opposite the intermolar 
eminence. Its mucous membrane is covered with two kinds of 
