1910. 



CUTANEOUS SCENT-GLANDS OF RUMINANTS. 



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freely with the interungual space as in Dama and Gervulus, this 

 type of gland being, in my opinion, as is explained below, the most 

 primitive type in the Ruminants. 



Genus Capreolus Frisch. 



Capreolus capreolus Linn. (The Common Roe.) 

 (Text-fig. 136.) 



According to Ogilby, this species has no preorbital glands, but 

 large interdigital glands ; and since he described the pedal glands 

 both of Cervus elaphus and of C. capreolus as '■^fossce interdigitales 

 magnce," it might be inferred that they have the same structure 



Text-fig. 136. 



B 



Capreolus capreolus. 

 A. Median vertical section of hind foot. 1 B. Median vertical section of front foot. 



in the two species. This inference, howev-er, is as little in accord 

 with the fncts as the statement that the pedal glands of Capreolus 

 are veiy^ like those of Hydropotes *. Max Tempel accurately 

 figured and described the glandular structures both on the front 

 and hind feet of Capreolus. 



The only material of this species which I have been able 

 to examine was some limbs of fi-eshly killed specimens kindly 



* Lydekker, 'Deer of all Lands,' p. 223. 



