164 PROF. W. H. FLOWER ON THE MUSK-DEER. [Mar. 16, 
where the other papillze are becoming few and small, is on each side 
a longitudinal row of five rather small circumvallate papillee, not quite 
symmetrically disposed and slightly converging posteriorly*. The 
tongue is attached in front, # inch behind the incisor teeth, by a soft 
broad fold of membrane without any distinct freenum. 
The parotid gland is large and straggling, composed of loosely 
connected acini. It extends from the angle of the jaw, 13 inch 
backwards and upwards to the top of the neck behind the ear, a small 
slender branch projecting forwards and upwards in front of the car- 
tilaginous meatus. The duct leaves the most inferior part of the 
gland below the angle of the jaw, passes upwards obliquely across 
the horizontal ramus with the facial artery and vein one inch in front 
of the angle, and at first following the anterior border of the masseter 
muscle, then running forwards, enters the mouth quite at the upper 
part of the cheek opposite the third premolar tooth. An oval patch 
of buccal glands, nearly an inch from before backwards, is situated in 
the cheek, around and chiefly below the entrance of the parotid duct. 
The submaxillary gland lies immediately below the parotid. It is 
also very large and with large acini, but of more compact form, being 
triangular, the shortest side or base of the triangle (1'-3 long) 
being turned backwards and lying against (for its upper half) the 
transverse process of the atlas. ‘The apex (distant 2 inches from the 
middle of the base) lies beneath the horizontal ramus of the jaw. The 
upper border is in contact with the digastric muscle, the lower 
border with the sterno-hyoid. The gland lies immediately upon the 
larynx, with the sterno-thyroid, thyro-hyoid, and the constrictors 
of the pharynx. A smal], detached, oval, glandular piece lay on the 
upper border of the posterior belly of the digastric muscle, on the 
right side only. The duct leaves the inner surface of the gland, ? inch 
behind the apex, passes outside the central tendon of the digastric 
muscle (7. e. between it and the ramus of the jaw), then crosses 
beneath it and runs forward, surrounded by the long sublingual gland 
(3 inches in length), to open quite at the fore part of the floor of the 
mouth, beneath one of the before-mentioned papille, { of an inch 
behind the incisor teeth. 
The tonsillar glands open by a pair of large distinct orifices, one in 
front of the other in the usual situation, without any elevation. The 
oesophagus is lined with very dense epithelium thrown into longitu- 
dinal ruge. 
The larynx did not appear to present any thing specially to distin- 
guish it from that of other Deer. The epiglottis (fig. 3) is triangular, 
with a pointed apexf. 
* The arrangement of the circumyallate papille thus agrees with the Cervide, 
and differs entirely from that of Zragulus and Hyomoschus (see P. Z. 8. 1867, 
p. 999). 
The tongue of the Pudu is rather shorter and thicker than that of the Musk- 
Deer, and not so spatulate at the anterior extremity. The papille are similarly 
arranged ; but the fungiform are more conspicuous, especially on the intermolar 
elevation ; and in the middle of the tongue, near the front, they are conical and 
recurved, though at the apex and sides perfectly cireular in outline. 
t Inthe Pudu the epiglottis has a rounded free border. Inthe Wapiti it isbifid. 
