1910.] CUTANEOUS SC'EXT-GLAXDS OF RUMINANTS. 93T 



of the long hairs of the pad. The same pad, T noticed, was well 

 developed in a f(t'tal Girafi'e taken from its mother that died some 

 four years ago in the Gardens (see F. E. Reddard, P. Z. S. 1906, ii. 

 p. 6:W, fig. 109). 



The horns of the three weeks old specimen, which were rela- 

 tively as livrge as in the adult, had no connection, apart from 

 contact, with the skull, a fact already recorded by Sir Rav 

 Lankester (P. Z. S. 1907, p. 101). 



Family MOSCHID.'E. 



MoscHUS MOSCHIFERUS Linn. (The Musk-Deer.) 

 (Text-fig. 126.) 



The peculiar musk-gland of the male of this species has been 

 described by many authors, and I have nothing to add to whnt hns 

 already been said of this organ*. Ogilby and Hodgson state that 

 the preorbital and pedal glands are absent. Flower t confirn)S 

 this, saying " nor were there any interdigital glands on either feet, 

 the depressed space between the toes, Avhere the glands usually 

 open, being covered with hair." Brandt also described a gland on 

 the outer side of the thigh in the male t ', J^nd Hodgson discovered 

 a gland opening on each side of the tail in that sex §. Neither the 

 femoral nor caudal glands were found by Flower in the female 

 example dissected by him. 



I have only seen one. example of this species, a male from 

 Chamba presented to the Society by Major G. S. Rodon, F.Z.S. ; at 

 the time of its death I merely noted the structure of the feet and 

 the absence of the preorbital gland. On the front feet it was veiy 

 obvious that the long hairs of the interdigital depression were 

 stuck together with a brown sticky substance, having a decided 

 but indescribable smell and indicating considerable activity of the 

 sebaceous glands. On the hind feet there was no such secretion, 

 the hairs being clean and separable. The depression between the 

 phalanges of the feet in this sj^ecies is deep, the integument of 

 the upper and under sides meeting at an acute angle to foi-m a 

 web which extends neai'ly as far as the heels of the hoofs ; but on 

 the hind feet the webbing is wider and not so thick as on the front 

 feet, so that the hoofs of the former are capable of being rather 

 more wirlely distended. The entire interdigital and interungual 

 area is thickly covered with long hairs the tips of which overlap 

 the proximal portion of the hoofs to a consideiuble extent. 



On the di-ied skin I find no trace of the femoral gland described 



* The sct'ut of tlie secretion of this gland when fresh is decidedly unpleasant, with 

 a peculiar pungent urinary odour. It bears no sort of resenildauce that I can detect 

 to the ]ir('pan?il " musk " of commerce. This is one of the criticisms that may he made 

 on Mr. Beddard"s perhaps satirical suggestion ("Mammalia" in the Camhridge Natural 

 History, p. 13, 1902) that the musky scent of this Deer may be mimetic, in the 

 sense of frightening its enemies bv suggesting the proximity of Crocodiles. 



t P. Z. S. 1875, p. 159 &c. 



X Bull. Sci. Acad. St. Petersb. i. p. 17-i, 1836. 



§ J. A. S. Bengal, x. p. 795. 1841. 



