8iM5 Mit. K. I. I'ocof'K (».\ TiiK [June 14, 



(Ji'lius IjlTllOl K.VMU.S Kulll. 



LiTiKtciiAxiu.s wALLLUi Brooke. 

 (Tlu" Cei-cnook or Wnlloi-'s Cuizelle.) (Text-%. 105, D, p. HS);").) 



Xo fresh material of this species lias been availal)le for 

 examination. 



Elliot describes the preorliita! i,rlaii(l as a "conspicuous })romi- 

 neiice with a central aperture, from which exudes a black secretion 

 that stains evervtliing it touches in the same way that ink does"*. 

 Judjjing from this description the ^^[land is better developeil than 

 in (iazelles, but the colour of the secretion appears to be the same. 



On a fore and a hind foot kindly lent to me by Mr. Edwaid 

 CSerrard I ha\'e found well-develo[)ed pedal glands, each con- 

 sisting of a large saccular in\agination on the front of the 

 pastern. The orifice is as large as in Gazelles, and extends up the 

 pastern as far as the joint between the penultimate and the ante- 

 penultimate phalanges. The infei'ior edge of the orifice is formed 

 as in Gazelles by the interungual web, which, however, difiers from 

 that of Gazelles in passing only halfway along the space between 

 the heels and the anterior proximal margin of the hoof. It is 

 also much thicker and more horny than in Gazelles ; l)ut, as in the 

 latter, is folded upon itself to form in the same way the back and 

 upper wall of the glaiulular interdigital cleft. In the specimen 

 examined, this wall was thrown into folds, suijeestins: a sac too 

 voluminous for the space containing it. The walls of the gland 

 were clothed with longish hairs, all projecting forwards or down- 

 wards towards the margins of the orifice, a downwardly directed 

 fringe of hairs clothing the edge of the interungual wel). 



The entire pastern is clothed with very short close-set hair, with 

 a small black tuft over the proximal end of the hoof in front ; a 

 felting of thick close-set hair clothes the integument on the inner 

 surface of the hoof above the jiroximal mai'gin of the nail and of 

 the heels. 



The hoofs are longer than in Gazelles, and capable of greater 

 distension, on account of the web being .shorter and situatetl 

 somewhat higher above the hoofs. 



Although the pedal glands of this genus are more like those 



takes placf, the first sign of it being u gradual lightening along the middle of the 

 hack. In .\ugust, when the blackening sets in, it appears first most i)ron()uncedly 

 Ujpon the neck, legs, and fore i|nai-ters, and gradually s|)reails backwards. 



For three consecutive years 1 hav(? observed this in a si)ecimen in our Gardens. 1 

 do not know what theory Indian si)ortsnu'n hold as to the disappearance of " Hluck- 

 hueks" from the herds during the months they are in "eclipse "pelape, to borrow an 

 ornithological expression. Hut, since most of them, I imagine, believe all tawny 

 individuals to be does or young bucks, they nnist supjwse, I conceive, that the ailult 

 bucks have separated themselves from their companions, an inference clearly not 

 .justified by the facts. 



• ' Great and Small Game of .\frica,' p. 371, Ibi'it (Rowland Ward). 



