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pasterns or between the base of tlie lioot's (= postdigital, inter- 

 digital, and interungulate glands of Owen ; fossne interdigitales of 

 Ogilby ; interdigital i)its of Hodgson ; foot-glands or hoof -glands 

 of other English authors), 



Clarjml or kncp ylamls are the glands commonly represented by 

 a pad of long hair just below the knee or carpus in several 

 Bovidae. 



Tarsal glands are the glands represented Ijy a tuft or pad of 

 hair on the inner side of the tarsus of some telemetacarpal Cervidie 

 ( = the calcic tuft or gland of Hodgson, at least in part). 



Metatarsal glands are the glands represented by a pad or tuft 

 of hair on the outer side of the metatarsus of some Cervidse and of 

 ^pyceros amongst the Bovidse ( = the calcic tuft or gland of 

 Hodgson, at least in part). 



Preorhital glands are the glands in front of the eyes ( = sub- 

 orbital and maxillary pits of Owen ; sinus lacrymales and glandulse 

 maxillares of Ogilby ; eye-pits of Hodgson ; antorbital glands of 

 other English writers). 



Inguinal glands are the saccular glands of the groin (= inguinal 

 pits of Owen ; folliculi inguinales of Ogilby ; inguinal glands and 

 pores of Hodgson ; groin-glands of other authors). 



In addition to these there are glands of less common occurrence, 

 such as the 2^ost-corn'ual glands of Ihtjncajji-a, the occijntal glands 

 of Camelus, the caudal glands of Capra, the j)'>'^liutM gland of 

 Moschus, and the ungaicular glands or glands in the false-hoofs of 

 Tetraceros. 



Part II. — On the Structure of the Glands and the Systematic 

 Results to be derived from them. 



Family BOVID^. 



The subjoined dichotomous analytical key, based mainly on 

 the sti'ucture of the feet and upon the specialised cutaneous 

 glands, shows the subfamilies into which the Bovidie may be 

 provisionally divided on the evidence supplied by these characters. 

 I have pi'esei'ved all the subfamilies already established by previous 

 authors, and have added a few new ones for the i-eception of 

 isolated genera which I found could not be included in the divisions 

 to which they had been heretofore assigned without frustrating 

 the attempt to define the groups in question. 



The erection of new subfamilies for the accommodation of these 

 aberrant genera appeared to me to he the most exj)edient course 

 to follow under the circumstances, although some authoi'S may 

 perhaps demur to the separation thus entailed of Paniholops 

 fi'om the Aiitilopina^ and of Oreotragus from the Neotraginte. 

 Furthermore, I am inclined to think that additional groups 

 of subfamily rank will probably be established in the future. 

 Boselaphus and Teiracerus, for instance, might perhaps be 



