1910.] 



CUTANEOUS SCENT-GLANDS OF RUMINANTS. 



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in section, being constructed very much as in the Trafjelaphine 

 Bovida? ; but, as in the other species of Cervidas hitherto described, 

 the inteiangual web was quite naked. The portion of this web 

 Avhich formed the heel-tie Avas wider than in the other Deer, 

 giving greatei- distensibihty to the hoofs, and the skin suii'ounding 

 tlie false hoofs was naked, although the back of the pastern was 

 normally hairy between the false hoofs and the heels *. 



Text-fig. 130. 



B 



Ceri'us (Panolia) eldi. 

 A. Median vertical section of front foot. I B. Median vertical section of hind foot. 



Genus Elaphurus M.-Edw. 



Elaphurus davidianus M.-Edw. 

 (The Milou or Pere David's Deer.) 



According to Mr. Lydekker ('Deer of all Lands,'pp. 233-237) the 

 pi-eoi'bital gland is large, the metatarsal gland covered with hair 

 and situated in the upper third of the cannon-bone, and the foot- 

 glands and tarsal glands absent in this species. 



Examination of a dried skin in the British Museum has 

 enabled me to verify these statements, and to add to the informa- 

 tion siipplied by Mi'. L3'dekker the fact that the inteiiingual 

 integument or wel) is naked as in C. elaphus, maral, sika, eldi, 



* In one race of this species the whole of the back of the pastern is naked as in 

 Linmotraffus. 



