186 MR. 1?. I. rococif o^- the jexternal 



The eyes were closed. The only hairs developed were the sensory 

 vibrissa} on the head, the mystacials, submentals, superciliaries, 

 and suboculars being very evident. On the cheek there were two 

 genals and the interramals arose from a warty excrescence. The 

 early development of all the tufts of vibrissa characteristic of the 

 Mammalia is interesting. The position of the antlers was marked 

 by a depression of the integument on each side of the crown of 

 the head. The preorbital gland was represented by a shallow 

 depression, opening by a short linear orifice a little distance below 

 and in front of the eye. The metatarsal gland was marked by a 

 small pale oval patch on the skin of the leg below the hock. 

 The pedal glands were as in the adult, a deep pit on the hind foot 

 and a shallow pit on the fore foot. 



Genus Dama Frisch. 



Dama dama Linn. (p. 950). 



The rhinarium in the Fallow-Deer is much reduced by the 

 encroachment of hair from the muzzle and lips. On its upper- 

 side the hair extends nearly as far as the anterior end of the 

 noiitrils, leaving only a narrow strip bordering the nostrils 

 laterally above. The inf ranarial portion is very narrow inferiorly, 

 being at its narrowest point much less than the width of the 

 space between the nostrils. (Text-fig. 3, B, C.) 



Genus Elaphurus M.-Edw. 

 Elaphurus davidianus M.-Edw. (p. 94-5). 



My notes upon this species in 1910 were based upon the 

 observations of others and upon the examination of a diied skin 

 in the British Museum. Since then I have seen two examples in 

 the flesh, both from the Duke of Bedford's herd at Wobiu-n. 

 The first of these, a male, died in the Zoological Gardens from 

 impaction of the psalterium in August 1917; the second, a 

 female, died at Woburn and was kindly sent to me for exami- 

 nation by the Duke in January 1923. 



The facial vibrissce are represented by well-developed buccal 

 and orbital bristles ; by a small genal tuft on each side below the 

 corner of the eye and above the line of the month, and by an 

 interrainal tuft of a few short biistles arising from a small 

 .elevation. In the male there is an interramal dew-lap which is 

 absent in the female. Perhaps this is seasonally developed. 



The rhinarium is. large and naked with the nostrils narrow and 

 .widely separated, but with the space between them a little 

 naiTOwer than the inf ranarial portion, which has a short inferior 

 median sxilcus. On the upperside the hair of the muzzle 

 encroaches to a great extent between the nostrils, reaching beyond 



