958 MR. R. I. pococK ON THE [June 14, 



procured for me by Dr. Plimmer, F.R.S., Pathologist to the Society, 

 and by Mr. R. E. Holding, and a face-skin for which I was also 

 indebted to the latter gentleman. Mr. Lydekker describes the 

 face-gland of Capreolus as "almost obsolete." I could iiud no 

 trace of it on the face-skin that I examined. 



The metatarsal gland ^\■as represented by a thick })ad of hairs, 

 the bases of -which exhibited blackish secretion derived from the 

 thickened skin benenth. I could detect no distinct smell in 

 connection with this gland. 



The pedal gland of the hind foot was represented externally by 

 a smallish orifice opening on the front of the pastern high above 

 the hoofs. This constricted orifice led into a capacious sac ex- 

 tending as far back as the posterior skin of the pastern and also 

 to a certain distance upwards, its upper exti-emity reaching as far 

 as the false hoofs. The walls of the sac were scantily clothed 

 with long pale hairs all stuck together with thick yellow secretion 

 smelling like cheese. The dark brown gelatinous-looking glan- 

 dular layer enveloped not only the sac itself but the skin of the 

 front of the pastern below it and the skin of its posterior side up 

 as far as the false hoofs. The hair between the hoofs was all 

 matted with secretion. Below the oi'ifice of the glandular pouch 

 the skin of the middle line of the pastern was only slightly de- 

 pressed ; the anterior and posterior walls of the interungual web 

 were moderately widely separated and in no sense closely folded 

 as in Cervnlus or Dama. This web was, however, uniformly and 

 thickly covered, both above, below, and between the heels, with 

 long hairs. 



On the front leg the glandular sac was represented by a very 

 shallow depression, but the skin of the pastern below this down 

 to the hoofs and of the back of the pastern from the heels up to 

 the false hoofs was lined with a dark secieting layer. This 

 layer did not, however, extend up the interungual web, which 

 was deeper than that of the hind foot but similarly hairy. The 

 hairs both on the front and the back of the pastern were stuck 

 together basally with blackish sticky secretion smelling of mouse 

 urine. 



Genus Alce Frisch. 



Alce alces Linn. (The Moose.) 

 (Text-fig. 137.) 



According to Ogilby, this species has large preorbital and pedal 

 glands. Subsequent authors have also recorded the presence of 

 pi'eorl)ital, tarsal, and metatarsal glands, the latter, accoi'ding to 

 Nitsche (Zool. Anz. xiv. p. 181, 1891), being represented by a 

 naked area of skin overla])ped by a marginal fringe. Max 

 Tempel accurately described the structure of the feet and the 

 microscopic structure of the glandular pocket of the posterior foot. 



I have nothing new to add on these points, the only matei'ial 

 of the genus I ha\e been able to procure for examination being 



