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interungual tie was naked. In both the other examples the walls 

 of the depression were clothed with long hairs running down- 

 wards and forwards, following the curve of the floor of the pouch, 

 but capable of being raised so as to project from its orifice. 

 In one of these two specimens the interungual tie was naked, 

 but in the second it was covered with short hairs. (Text- 

 fig. 4, B.) 



One of the interests of these variations is that they break 

 down the differences I recorded in 1910 between the feet of the 

 Chital and of the Hog Deer (A. pordnus), in which t^he inter- 

 ungual tie is hairy and the glandular pouch provided with long 

 projecting hairs. On the strength of these differences I separated 

 porcinus from axis, retaining for it the subgeneric name Hy- 

 elaphus ; and this opinion was adopted by Lyddeker. Owing^ to 

 the identity in the structure of the hind foot in the two species, 



Text-figure 4. 



A. Longitudinal section of the fore foot of Axis axis. 



B. The same of the hind foot. 



Hyelaphus now falls as a synonym of Axisaxidi the latter will con- 

 tain two species A. axis and A. porcinus, the genus Axis being 

 distinguished from the supposedly allied form Stcsa, which has 

 similar simple antlers, by the presence of the glandular pouch on 

 the hind foot. 



In the two examples of A. axis above referred to, the creamy 

 or waxy secretion sticking together the hairs of the glandular 

 pouch smelt like tallow candles, with an admixture of cheese. 

 The fore feet differed in no important respect from those of the 

 specimen described in 1910. (Text-fig. 4, A.) 



In a foetal Axis Deer, measuring sixteen inches (about 400 mm.) 

 from the snout to the root of the tail and weighing 3 lb., the 

 skin although naked showed faintly all the spots characteristic of 

 the adult. The tail was relatively much longer than in the adult. 



