1910.] 



CUTANEOUS SCENT-GLANDS OF RUMINANTS. 



959 



two feet which, from certain differences in their structure, I judge 

 to be those of front and hind legs. The former I received from 

 Mr. R. E. Holding, the latter from Messrs. Rowland Ward, Ltd. 

 On the one judged to be the hind foot the interdigital pocket 

 found in Gapreolibs and Rangifer was i-epresented by a distinct bi;t 

 shallow depression, with hairs paler than those of the surrounding 

 skin projecting from it. A little below this the integument dipped 

 obliquely backwards and downwards towards the heels to meet 

 that of the posterior side of the pastern, which extended for some 

 distance between the heels but was not markedly thickened to form 

 a strong heel-tie. The entire interungual area and heel-tie were 

 covered with long hairs, there being only a small less thickly 

 haired area a little below the glandular depression. 



Text-fig. 137. 



Alee aloes. 



A. Median vertical section of front foot (dried). 



B. The same of hind foot (dried). 



On the front leg there was scarcely a trace of the glandular 

 pocket seen on the other, but the slightly depressed skin along 

 the middle line of the front of the pastern towards the hoofs was 

 scantily hairy, this area being of much greater extent than on 

 the foot previously described. Moreover, the interungual web 



