848 Ml!. I!. I. rucDrK on tiik [June '4, 



i"'. No iiii'tatarsiil ulaiicN ; taNu lioof^ in-i'sciit ; iiitiT- 

 uiifiual iiiti'f;uim-nt nakt'il. 



Z . I'filal ^laiiils presi'ut mi all t'cuir feet and i-oiisistiii!; 

 of a tliirk-wallctl, cloiiirated sac f^radiially k'sseii- 

 iiiiT ill caliliic towards tlit'oritice, wliicli is situated 

 close to till- siiiiiiiiit of the iiiteruiifrual wel> : or 

 else the ^liuid is snmll and opens beliiiid a coni<-al 

 excrescence developiil from the summit of the 

 intei-ungual weh as in Adda.r* Oryijin.k (p. 9()7). 



A'. Pedal ^rlands alisent, except in I'elea, where they 

 consist of a thin-walled, compressed, roundish 

 sac with a short and narrow neck, the orifice of 

 which opens some lit tie distan<'eat)ove the summit 



of the intcrun^aial weh Cekvicapkinj-; (p. 911), 



TuAGKLAi'nix.u (p. 921), Boyis.>:t (p. 932). 



Sulifauiily U r p i c a r R i x .K. 



Genus KupiC'APKA Blaiuv. 



RuptcAPHA iiupiCAPRA Liuii. (The Chamoiss.) 

 (Text-fig. 8:?.) 



At'coiding to Owen the Clianioi.s has no pivorhital glands, hut 

 possesses inguinal glands and a gland hehind the hase of each ear. 

 Mr. Lydekker, on the contrary, states that a small preorbital gland 

 is present t ; and even so recently as 1904 Max Weher ('Die 

 Siiugethiei-e,' ]». 675) assei'ts that the male possesses postaiu-icular 

 glands. The pedal glands were described hy Max Tempel. 



Living examples of Tyrolean Chamois in the Zoological Gaidens 

 show no trace either of the preorbital gland mentioned by 

 Mr. L}'dekker or of the })ost-auditory gland mentioned by Owen 

 and other writers ; nor could I detect a trace of them in the only 

 fresh specimens 1 have been able to examine, namely two newly 

 l)orn kids, or upon dried skins in the British Mu.seum. 



The feet of these immature specimens were more like tho.se of 

 (lazelles than of any Antelopes, Sheep, or ( Joats that J have seen. 

 When the hoofs were pulled apart a triangular interdigital 

 de]iression was shown. This, however, was both shorter and 

 much .shallower than in Gazelles. It became gradually shallower 

 and narrower upwai-ds to its apex, the deepest and broadest pait 

 being at its lower end, where it was closed by the inter- 

 ungual web. The skin of this web was folded back in the same 

 way as in Gazelles, but nnich less deeply, so that the .skin forming 

 the back of the glandular dej)ression was .separated some distance 

 from that of the back of the pa.stern. The walls of the de})ression 

 were .somewhat scantily clothed with .short hairs. Also, as in 

 Gazelles, the entire interungual web. extending from near the 



* On account of the peculiar structure of the feet this fjenus should perhaps form 

 the type of a special sulilaniily, .Vddaciniu. 



t These groups are distin;;uishal>le liy other cliaracters than those supplied by the 

 feet. 



t ' Grwit and Small Game of Europe,' p. 173, 1001. The authority for this 

 Rtatotneiit is not given. 



