CHARACTERS OF ELAPHURUS AXD OTHER CERVID.E. 



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the middle of their length, but leaving a wide naked lirn above 

 them laterally. Although the rhinarium differs considerably in 

 its nakedness from that of Cervus canadensis or Dama dama, 

 it is not very unlike that of Cervus eldi. (Text-fig. 5, A, B.) 



The preorhital gland is a deep and long pit, with a naked floor, 

 its orifice when closed being about as long as the eye. 



The ear is moderately large and thickly clothed with long 

 hairs inside. It has three vertical ridges, the anterior and 

 posterior being stronger than the median. The basal ridge is 

 bilobed, the posterior lobe is much longer than the anterior, but 

 not very much higher, and has a convex edge. Beneath it there 



Text-fieure 5. 





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B 



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A. Rhinarium and edge of lower lip of ElajpJnwus davidianus, 



from tlie front. 

 I?. Uliinarium of the same from above. 



is a curved rounded ridge leading down to the orifice. (Text- 

 fig. 15, A.) 



The feet are long and broad with the digits widely separable, 

 owing to the shallowness of the interdigital web arising from the 

 depth of the depression between the heels of the hoofs. The 

 upper interdigital depression is approximately as deep as in 

 Cervus elaplucs or maral^ and is scantily covered with hairs in its 

 proximal half, naked in the distal half. The hoofs themselves 

 are moderately wide and pointed, but are remarkable for the 

 exceeding length of the heels, which extend backwards almost to 



