CHARACTERS OF ELAPHURUS AND OTHER CERVID^. 



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The overfolded edges of the base of the ear meet at an acute 

 angle. There are two vertical cartilaginous ridges, an anterior 

 and a posterior, supporting the pinna; and the prominences 

 on the basal ridge are very unequal in size, the anterior being 

 quite small and slender, whereas the posterior rises as a high 

 triangular peak. These prominences are quite unlike those of 

 any other species of Cervidfe that I have examined. (Text- 

 fig. 8, A, B.) 



Feet. — The hoofs of the fore foot are long and pointed, and 

 tolerably widely separable ; the soft inferior cushion, constituting 

 the greater part of the sole, is continued backwards some distance 

 behind the smooth heel-tie which joins the heels together. On 

 the front of the pastern there is a tolerably deep and smooth 



Text-figure 8. 



A. Base of ear of Sydvopotes inermis. 



B. The same cut open. 



C. Rhinarium of the same from the front. 



D. Section of preorbital gland of the same. 



glandular depression, and the skin all along the back of the 

 pastern from the heel-tie to the area between and beyond the 

 false hoofs is also glandular. This area is more scantily covered 

 with hair than the area of the leg above the false hoofs, and the 

 false hoofs themselves, which are short, are basally encircled by 

 an area of naked skin divided inferiorly by a narrow scantily 

 hairy strip of skin. (Text-figs. 9, A; 10, A.) 



The hind foot is very similar to the front foot, but the hoofs 

 are rather more widely separable, and the heels are narrower and 

 a little longer. As in the front foot the back of the pastern is 

 hairy down to the' heels, and the heel-tie is naked. The glan- 

 dular depression is considerably deeper and longer, and has a 

 more abruptly upturned anterior rim. The widely separable 



