1910.] 



CUTANEOUS SCENT-GLANDS OF RUMINANTS. 



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Biosa eciidna, I did not find ; and no living Sanibar that I liave 

 seen has any gland on the forehead comparable in development 

 to that of the Muntjac [Cervulus). 



The metatarsal gland was x-epresented by a tuft of hair, which, as 

 in Elaphiirus and Cerims, completely covered the undei-lying skin. 

 No evidence, however, of the glandular activity of the skin was 

 supplied by secretion at the base of the hairs. 



Text-fijj. 131. 



Husa unicolor. 

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



Neither on the front nor the hind feet was there a ti'ace of 

 interdigital depression such as is seen in the Axis and Hog 

 Deer, The front of the pastei-n in both feet was only shallowly 

 depressed and was covered with hair as in Elaphurus, and the 

 interungual web was quite naked as in the latter and in the 

 typical Old World Elaphine Deei-. 



The difference in the structure of the hind feet l)etween the 

 Sambar and the Axis justifies the generic separation of the two; 

 with this is correlated the nakedness of the metatarsal gland in 



