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gland differentiated, although the surface of the skin is apparently 
studded with minute gland-openings. In the hind limb the inter- 
digital skin forms a deep. pocket, which almost. completely separates 
the toes, except that they are joined by a thin transverse skin-fold 
along their posterior edges. The included skin is studded with small 
glands. I can find no trace of any metatarsal glands. 
The muffle is as deep as broad, and extends one half up the onter 
margin of the narial orifice. 
In the new-born female the milk-incisors and lower canines are 
cut, as is the sharp small upper canine. The milk-molars are in place, 
partly disguised by a layer of mucous membrane covering them. 
The anterior portion of the palate is covered with the ordinary trans- 
verse ridges, running outwards from the middle line; posteriorly it 
is smooth. 
The tongue shows but little of the intermolar eminence. The 
fungiform papille are numerous, and stand out conspicuously. Pos- 
tero-laterally they develop into lines of papille circumvallate. 
. The stomach is not favourable for study, because of its being so 
. little developed. The villi on the rudimentary paunch look like the 
pile on thick-set velvet. The hexagonal cells in the reticulum are 
conspicuous though not high-walled. By the aid of a magnifying 
: Fig. 1. 
Liver of Hydropotes inermis (still-born). 
glass the psalterium is seen to be quadruplicate—in other words, to 
have its lamine arranged in four powers, there being ten primary 
lamin, with secondary smaller folds between them, on each side of 
which are smaller laminz, with linear rows of papille (rudimentary 
laminz) between them, of the fourth power. The large abomasum is 
not peculiar. 
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surface. 
The liver (fig. 1) has no gall bladder, therein being quite cervine. 
