THE CHINESE WATER-DEER. 425 
bladder, three and a half colic coils, and a specialized linear cotyle- 
donary arrangement. In other words, Hydropotes is typically Cervine, 
whilst Moschus is any thing but so. 
To what group of the Cervide Hydropotes is most allied there is 
still considerable uncertainty. That it is not allied to the New- Page 792. 
World type is evident from its vomer not extending downwards to join 
the osseous palate posteriorly. That it is not Cervuline is equally 
Brain of Hydropotes inermis (still born). 
certain on account of its tarsal cuneiform bones being free from the 
naviculo-cuboids. Its Jarge hepatic Spigelian lobe favours the view 
suggested by Sir Victor Brooke,* that it is most closely allied to the 
Rasine Deer. 
ey * “ Proceedings of the Zoological Society,” 1872, p. 525. 
