1910.] 



CUTANKOUS SCENT-OLAXDS OF RUMINANTS. 



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chax-jicters of tlie Snidtc, tlio Ciimolidae, and the C'ervid;o. In 

 specimens of TrcKpdas sianleyawts (or an allied form) and of 

 T. memitma, which lived in the Gardens, I find that the web on 

 tlie posterior side of the pastern consists of a fold of skin which 

 stops sliort at a point about halfway between the false hoofs and 

 the heels ; the back of the pastern is open in its lovver half, and 

 its front is marked with a long triangular depression, the a[)ex of 

 which extends up to the level of the false hoofs. 



Text-fiff. 141. 



A. Median vertical section of foot of TrarfuJus meminna, 

 Vt. Anterior aspect of f<jot of T. stanlej/anus. 



C. Median vertical section of foot of JJicoti/les. 



D. The same ot Fhacochwrus. 



These feet are the only ones known to me amongst the 

 Ruminantia in which the web ceases behind far above the heels. 

 The inner walls of the two digits of the pastern are clothed with 

 hair, which is shox't and scanty in T. stanleyanus, longer and less 



