1910.] CUTANEOUS SCENT-GLANDS OF RUMINANTS. 943 



hairs with white tips. The bases of the hairs were covered with 

 adhesive secretion and the underlying skin was m:irkedly thick 

 and glandular. In both the front and the hind feet the anterior 

 interdigital depression was naked and nearly hairless in its deeper 

 portion, but in the hind foot it was not sulnlivided into an upper 

 and a lower i)ortion, which are so well marked in C. elaphns, the 

 floor of the depression sloping gradually and evenly downwards 

 and backwards from the tarso-metntarsal joint as in the front leg, 

 and the iiaterdigital web was developed to about the same extent 

 in the two feet. In section the skin of this area showed no 

 especial signs of glandular activity. 



Text-fiff. 129. 



B 



Cervits (Pseuda.vis) sika. 

 A. IMediiin vertical section of front foot. | B. Median vertieal section of hind foot. 



Although, on the evidence supplied by the antlers, Mr. Garrod 

 believed Pseuda.ds to be nearly related to Dama, the structure of 

 the feet afibrds no support to tliis view. 



Pseudaxis sika I'eadily interbreeds with Cerrus ela2)/ws. 



Cervus (Rucervus) duvauceli Cuv. 



(The Swamp-Deer or Barasingha.) (Text-fig. 128, B, p. 941.) 



Hodgson, who refers this species to two genera under the names 

 Rucervus elap/toides vel duvauceli and Procervus dhnov'phe^ says 

 that the preorl)ital glands are moderate, and moderately movable 

 in the foiinei', medial and vei'tical in tlie lattei-, that the pedal 



