952 MR. R. I. POCOCK ON THE [June 14, 



the one above described, and the front foot shows a very deep 

 cleft similar to that on the hind foot l)ut shallower, the web of 

 the heel-tie being much less closely folded. 



Although, in the opinion of some authors, Dama is merely a sub- 

 genus of Cerrus, the structure of the feet shows that it musti-ank 

 as quite a distinct genus from all Elaphine Deer to which it is 

 commonly supposed to be nearly allied. The only Deer, so far as my 

 knowledge extends, which have the hind feet so deeply cleft are the 

 Muntjacs (Cervuhts) and the Chinese Water- Deer {Hi/dropotes). 



I am not aware that the Fallow-Deer ever interljreeds with the 

 Red Deer. 



Genus Cervulus Blainv. 



Cervulus MUNTJAC Zimm. (The Common Indian Muntjac.) 

 (Text-fig. 134.) 



According to Ogilby, this species has very large movable pi-e- 

 orbital glands, two large movable supraorbital glands at the base 

 of the hoi-ns, and large pedal glands. Hodgson confirms what 

 Ogilby says about the preorbital and supraorl)ital glands, and adds 

 that the pedal glands are confined to the hind feet and that the 

 metatar.sal gland is absent. 



My own observations upon a specimen six days old that 

 died in the Gardens, agreed precisely with those of Hodgson. 

 The fi'ontal gland was represented l)y two anteriorly converging 

 sti-ijis of .skin covered with A^ery short hair, and shallowly grooved 

 or rather longitudinally depressed along the middle line. This 

 area of skin was in no sense thickened, and in section showed 

 no macrosco})ic indication of being specially glandular. This 

 was probably attributable to the immaturity of the specimen, 

 for in living adult examples of this species now living in the 

 Gardens this gland appears as a long crease with thickened 

 upstanding edges, and, be it noted, it is much better developed 

 in the male than in the female. 



The preorbital gland when closed has the form in the adult of a 

 cre.scentic slit with the concavity directed upwards. The posterior 

 extremity of the slit, however, curves back towards the shallow 

 groove running forwards from the eye, and its opposite extremity 

 curves .slightly the other way, giving in reality a slightly sigmoid 

 curve to tlie slit. The two ends of the slit are deepei- than its 

 median portion, and when the gland was everted in the young 

 individual its area was .seen to be subcircular and marked with 

 an anterior and posterior groove representing the deeper parts of 

 the .slit. 



Theie was no tiace of tansal or metatar.sal glands or tufts of 

 hair ; and the pedal glands were present only on the hind feet, 

 the front of the pastern bearing a deep triangular cleft when the 

 hoofs were separated. The skin of the back of the pastern 

 reached the heels, and was foldeil somewhat closely back upon 



