948 MR. R. I. rococK ox the [June 14, 



the latter auiiii:il and its liaiiy clothing in the former. On the 

 other hand, although the Samltai- re.seiul)le.s the Bara.singlia 

 (C. {Jiiicerrus) diovatocel i), the Tliauiin (C. (Panolia) eldl). and the 

 Japanese Deer (C {I'seiulaxis) silcd) in the structure of the feet, 

 it may he generically distinguished fi-oui these as veil as from the 

 typical Elaphine Stags hy the longer bushier tail and the extension 

 of the muffle as a distinct broailish rim of moist hairless skin 

 beneath the nostril. 



According to the Mai"quis of Hamilton this species interbreeds 

 with Cervas elaphus (' Field,' July 1910, p. 199). 



Genus Axis Ham. Smith. 



Axis (Axis) axis Erxl, (The Chital or Spotted Deer.) 

 (Text-fig. 132, A-E.) 



Hodgson says that the preorbital glands are large and very 

 movable, the pedal glands large and present only in the hind 

 feet, and that the metatarsal gland is posterior and external. 

 This is perfectly correct, according to my observations. 



In an old male that died in the Gardens, the infolding of the 

 preorbital gland was decidedly shallower relatively to the size of the 

 animal than in C. mural, or ('. elaphns, or C. eldi, and the line 

 of the orifice, when closed, was nearly parallel to that of the long 

 axis of the aperture of the eye and lightly concave upwards. The 

 pocket was lined with hair of the same colour as that of the face. 

 Hv scjueezing, the gland could be made to yield drops of pale 

 moisture with a faint but decided musky smell. 



The metatarsal gland was represented liy a horn}-, hairless, 

 blackish oval patch of skin, exactly like the wart of a Zel)ra or 

 Wild Donkev and surrounded by a narrow rim of ],)ale naked 

 skin. This patch was entirely concealed by the long haiis growing 

 immediatelv round it, recalling in this respect the metatar.sal gland 

 of the lm})ala {JEpi/ceros). 



On the front feet there was only a very shallow depre.«.sion on 

 the anterior surface of the pastern ; but on the hind feet the 

 pedal gland was well developed and i-epresented by a long and 

 deei) depression .starting at the top of the pastein and extending 

 almost to the hoofs. At its deepest part the wall of the depression 

 almost reached the .skin of the po.sterior surface of the pastern. 

 From this point it gradu.ally shallowed above and below. Its upper 

 ed<'e reached the sunnuit of the ])astern, l)ut its lower edge was 

 .sunk some distance below and above the proximal portion of the 

 hoof where it was continued into the interungual tie, which 

 extended backwards from near the middle of the hoof to the 

 heels, efpialling in depth the corresponding web or tie of Cervns 

 wared and elaphus. As in those species this tie was naked, the 

 hairs beginning just between the heels and being continued up 

 the back of tlie pa.stern. From the above-given description it 

 may be inferred that the skin forming the lower rim of the inter- 



