950 MK. n. 1. rococK ox the [June 14, 



together and staintnl with 1)ro\vnish secretion, and the layer of 

 secreting cells was resti-ictod to the walls of the interdigital 

 dej)ression and were much more highly developed than in 

 Ceri'u^ maral. 



Axis (IlYELAriius) I'oucixus Zinnu. (The Hog- Deer.) 

 (Text-fig. 132, F.) 



According to Hodgson, the Hog-Deer agrees with the Axis 

 in the development and structure of its cutaneous glands, both 

 species being leferred to the genus Axis. 



In a general way, this was true of the one example, an adult 

 female, which I examined in a fresh state. The invagination of 

 the preorhital gland was, however, shallower than in the male 

 Axis. The pedal gland diftered, too, in one interesting jmrticular. 

 Its walls Avere covered with a growth of long hairs projecting 

 forwards from the orifice of the depression exactly as in the 

 Bubaline Antelopes. These hairs Avere clogged basally and 

 stained yellow by a waxy secretion with a pungent but in- 

 describable smell. Moreover, the interungual skin of the hind 

 foot was hairy ; of the front foot it was naked, i-eealling what 

 occurs in the Muntjac. The naked metatarsal patch was over- 

 lapped by the long inarginal hairs as in A. axis. 



I have seen hybrids between the Cliital and the Hog-Deer in 

 the possession of Sir Claud Alexander, by whom they were 

 bred. 



Genus Dam a Frisch. 



Dama dama Linn. (The Fallow-Deer.) 

 (Text-fig. 133.) 



The structure of the feet and of the pedal glands of this Deer 

 have been described accurately by IVlax Tempel. The material I 

 have examined were a fawn alxnit 24 houi-s old received from 

 Mr. R. E. Holding, some hind feet purchased in a shop in London, 

 and preparations of the feet in the Museum of the Royal College 

 of Surgeons. 



In the fawn the preorbital gland consi-sted of a small but very 

 distinct pit of naked skin. This pit was considerably deeper 

 relatively than in the much older young example of Cenms 

 {liucervus) duvauceli, but was shallower tlian in the fawn of 

 €emdus muntjac. 



The area of the metatarsal glaml was quite covered Avith long 

 Avhite close-set hair ; 1)ut the gland shoAved no signs of activity. 



The cleft of the pedal gland of the hind foot Avas as long as 

 in Axis axis or A. porcinus : but the cleft itself Avas decidedly 

 dceiier, the skin of the jjosterior Avail being almost in contact Avith 

 that of the back Avail of the pastern. As in A. axis the deejiest part 

 of the depression Avas at a point nearly midway between the heels 

 and the false hoofs ; above the deepest ])art the skin sloped 



