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cleft, the iippei' poi'tion of whicli was depressed to form a shallow 

 pocket with a narrow elongated orifice, whence long hairs, 

 stuck together with secretion, projected. This pocket was the 

 glandular area of the cleft. The sides of the cleft were covered 

 witli Jiair, as also was the interdigital web. 



On the front foot the skin of the anterior surface of the pastern 

 formed a very slight and gradual slope Ijetween the digits until 

 it reached a point on a level with the heels, whence it receded 

 somewhat abruptly, forming a moderately deep interungual web, 

 which met the skin of the back of the pastern at right angles, 

 constituting tlie heel-tie. In this foot the heel-tie and interungual 

 web were smooth and not hairy as in the hind foot. 



In a young male of al)Out a year old examined since the one 

 just mentioned Avas described, I found the glands similarly but 

 better developed. For instance, the dark glandular layer of the 

 pedal glands was much thicker, and the Avhite hairs of the 

 depression were stained a rich grass-gieen colour by the secretion, 

 the smell of which might be described as " musteline," being 

 decidedly unpleasant and reminding me of the scent of a Skunk 

 {Mephitis). When the frontal gland was excised and squeezed, 

 minute drops of clear fluid appeared on the skin. This had 

 quite a pleasant odour, very like that of a living Civet ( Viverra 

 civetia) or of the waxy substance cobblers call " heel-ball." 



Cervulus reevesi Ogilby. (Reeves' Muntjac.) 

 (Text-fig. 135, E.) 



I had an opportunity of examining the glands on a fresh nearly 

 adult female specimen of tliis species sent to the Gai-dens by 

 Mr. W. Jamiach for determination. The frontal glands were not 

 nearly so well developed as in C. muntjac : in the latter the 

 nearly naked areas of skin converge and meet on the summit 

 of the nose ; but in the specimen of 0, reevesi examined they 

 were considerably shelter, sul)parallel, and separated throughout 

 their extent by a normally haii y area of skin. 



The preorbital glands were of substantially the same structure 

 in the two. The secretion was white and adhesive, with a strong 

 smell of cream-cheese. 



The interdigital cleft of the hind foot had no differentiated 

 glandular pocket in its upper half, but was evenly deep throughout 

 its length, very closely resembling that of Dama dama, the inter- 

 digital web consisting of a close fold of skin running along the 

 back of the lower half of the ]iastern and tying the heels 

 together where the fold began. This heel-tie and the walls of 

 the cleft were covered with hairs, and long hairs projected forwards 

 and downwards from its deeper poi'tion, exactly as in the Hog- 

 Deer [Axis porcimis). 



