1910.] 



CUTANEOUS SCENT-GLANDS OF RUMINANTS. 



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hoofs being joined together by a moderately deep and strong 

 smooth tie just above the heels. The integument of the deeper 

 portion of the interdigital depression Avas almost naked, being 

 merely sparsely clothed with short hair, and instead of forming 

 a continuous and level surface was sinuous or slightly folded, so 

 that the depression was somewhat deeper above and below than 

 in the middle. In section it was speckled with a layer of small 

 dark spherical glands, which extended not only over the skin of 

 the dejjression itself but round the interungual tie and some little 

 distance above the heels on the back of the pastern. These dark 

 specks, clearly visible to the naked eye, sharply define the position 

 of the skin with active glands from the rest. 



The main difierences, then, between the front and hind feet are 

 the presence of a deeper nearly naked interdigital depression, 

 of a shoi'ter and weaker interungual web, and of more highly 

 developed sebaceous glands in the latter than in the foi'mer. 



Oervus (Cervus) elaphus Linn. (The Red Deer.) 

 (Text-fig. 128, A.) 



According to Ogilby, C. elaphus has distinct and movable pre- 

 orbital glands and lai'ge pedal glands. Hodgson described the 



Text-fig. 128. 



A. Median vertieal section of hind toot of Cervus (Cervus) elaphus. 



B. The same of Cervus (Bucervus) duvanceli. 



