OF THE EUROPEAN AND AMElilCAN EADGKRS. 



429 



tlie following passage : — "[there] i« a caudal poiicli directly under 

 the origin of the tail, . . . but quite distinct from, and vwholly 

 unconnected with, the anus or genital oignns. The sac is formed 

 by dnplica.te folds of the common integument, having a lining of 

 naked membi-ane, secreting a l)rown unctuous matter, not unlike 

 cerumen, or wax of the ear" ". 



Text-fii-ure 21. 



. A. Rear end of Meles mele.t, male, sliovviiig the subcandal and anal pouches 

 distended nearlj' to the fullest extent. 

 B. The same of the female, hut with the pouches rather less distended 

 transversely. 



Gairdner supplements this account as follows :—" Two scent 

 glands were found discharging into the postcaudal pocket. The 

 secretion was brownish yellow and the hind parts were stained 

 by the flow, and the stench so peivaded the beast that the coolies 

 were unable to eat iff. 



In the male of xUeles the hairy scrotum is situated just below 

 tlie rim of the circumanal sac, which, except in the mi<ldle line, 

 is covered with short hairs. Tlie hacidiim has been figured and 



"* Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bensral, viii. pt. i. p. 408 (1839). 



t Jouvn. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, i. no. 4, p. 253 (1915). From the passage quoted 

 it appears that the secretion of the glands oi Arctonyx is much stronger in smell 

 than that of Meles. Meles has the habit, observable in Mongooses and Civets, with 

 analogous glands, of rubbing the secretion on objects so that the scent is dis- 

 seminated. 



