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white hairs growing round it. The secreting glands lie beneath 

 these long hairs, the skin being thicker and more vascular there 

 than elsewhere. The naked area between the long hairs seems 

 to serve as a receptacle for the secretion, since it collects and is 

 encrusted there. (Text-fig. 12, A, B.) 



The feet and pedal glands are as described in 1910, except that 

 the pouch on the hind foot is rather more capacious, has a wider 

 orifice and naked walls. The pouch on the fore foot is similar, 

 but only about half the size. 



Odocoileus virginianus spinosus Gay & Gervais (p. 962). 



In 1910 I referred to a living example, identified as Dorc- 

 elaphus americanus savathnarum, which came from Venezuela and 

 was presented to the Society by Major Albert Pam. The animal 

 died in 1914, and I was able to examine it in a fresh state. 



The rhinarium resembles very closely that of the typical 

 North- American form, but from my sketches it seems that the 

 infranarial portion is somewhat narrower inferiorly and the 

 upper surface a little more overgrown with hair in the middle. 

 (Text-fig. 14, A.) 



The vibrissse on the upper and lower lips and above and below 

 the eye are well developed ; but there is a single long genal 

 bristle arising beneath the posterior angle of the eye and far back 

 in a line with the mouth. There is no interramal tuft. 



The preorbital gland is small as in the typical form. 



The tarsal gland is marked by a thickened bunch of hair, 

 brown and white in colour, and covered at the base with 

 secretion. 



The metatai'sal gland is a very small patch of thickened skin 

 overgrown with white hair. 



The glands are well-developed pouches, both on the front and 

 the hind foot. The hind foot hardly differs at all from that of 

 the typical 0. americanus, the walls of the pouch being naked ; 

 but in the fore foot the walls of the pouch are thickly covered 

 with hair and the orifice is much longer than in the typical 

 0. virgiiiianus, with the heel-tie shallower. There is also a small 

 naked patch at the posterior inferior angle of the heel-tie. 

 (Text-fig. 12, C, D.) 



In this animal, as in the above-described example of the typical 

 0. virginia7ius, the false hoofs of the fore foot are much longer 

 than those of the hind foot. 



Odocoileus virginianus peruvianus Gray. 



A male example from Iquique, presented by Miss Peggy Lomax 

 on April 24 in 1911, died in Jan. 1923 fi-om pneumonia, the 

 worn condition of the teeth showing it to be an old animal. The 

 •donor informed me that it was born in 1909. It was therefore 



