500 DR. J. MURIE ON SAIGA TARTARICA. [June 9, 
dition of the inguinal integument, the same subcutaneous glandular 
apparatus extant. A single description, therefore, will suffice for 
both. Pallas, it may be remarked, has partially indicated what I 
shall describe more in detail. 
1. There are two small suborbital glandular sacs, the so-called 
crumen, lachrymal sinus, or tearpit of some authors, which yield a 
thick whitish or pale-yellow exudation. These are situated in front 
of the orbit, and slightly below the median transverse line of the eye. 
In the younger female the small external openings of these were 
placed 7 of an inch, and in the male 13 inch, in advance of the 
orbital ring ; but the sinuses or sacs themselves lay in the broadish 
and moderately excavated infraorbital fosse. 
2. Each foot, as in the Sheep, possesses an interdigital sac 
about 1} inch in depth, and opening by a narrow constricted aper- 
ture at its front and upper part. The orifice is hidden by very 
short closely placed yellowish hairs, whilst below these the sac is su- 
perficially covered by a tuft of much stronger and longer hairs. The 
secretion derived from these interdigital bags is yellow and of a 
hardish ceruminous character. 
3. On the anterior aspect, but slightly to the inner side, of each 
fore knee is a small dermal gland, or a thickening of the cutaneous 
tissues, covered by a brownish patch of firm hairs. 
4. In the inguinal regions of both sexes bare oblong or lozenge- 
shaped spaces exist; each of these is 5 inches or more in extreme 
long diameter. Upon their inner edges in the female the imper- 
fectly developed udders and four teats are situated. There are no 
pouches or sacculations in the anterior part of these bare spaces, 
as obtains in Cephalophus dorsalis and some other forms, the skin 
in the Saiga being dry and nearly void of cuticular secretion ; but at 
the postinguinal extremities in both sexes of the latter animal there 
are glandular pores. In the male there is a very marked crescentic 
skin-fold 2 inch long and about 7 inch deep ; and this interiorly con- 
tains abundance of minute pore-like glands and a free secretion. 
The odour of the secretion is faint and ceruminous. 
The same portion of the postinguinal space in the young female 
differed from the male in there being no tegumentary sac or indu- 
plication of the tissues; but a smooth-surfaced secretory apparatus 
was present, and from this a moist waxy substance exuded. 
From what has been detailed above it follows that the true aggre- 
gated cutaneous glands of the Saiga Antelope altogether are ten in 
number. 
Upon my carefully dissecting and reflecting the skin of the groin 
beneath these postinguinal pouches or folds, I was surprised to find 
that they each possessed a retractor-like muscle. This was a small 
flat narrow fleshy band inserted on the middle of the duplicature of 
the skin; from this it ran outwards across the posterior end of the 
abdominal muscles, and appeared to arise beyond the general open- 
ing on the surface of the iliacus and between it and the fibrous ex- 
pansion of the external oblique muscle. 
The use of this well-defined muscular slip is to draw inwards and 
