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MR. R. I. POCOCK ON 



absence of interdigital glands on the feet and the smoothness of the 

 integument between the hoofs in Elaphurus corroborated Sir Victor 

 Brooke's views as to the relationship between this animal and such 

 Old World deer as lliisa^ Rucervus, and Cervus, and weakened to 

 a cori^esponding degree the claim for affinity between it and the 



Text-fis. 110. 



Diagram of the Antlers of four genera of CervidtB, to illustrate the homologies 

 established in this paper. 



A. Cervus. B. Eusa. C. Elaplmms. D. Odocoiletis. 



a, anterior and^, posterior branch. In A and B the anterior branch is called the 

 " brow-tine " and the posterior branch the " beam." JB is somewhat inter- 

 mediate between A and C. They difier collectively from 1> in having the 

 anterior branch well developed. In D it is small and concealed behind the 

 highly developed posterior branch. 



Telemetacarpal species, in all the members of which examined by 

 me, belonging to the genera Mazama, Odocoileus [Dorcelaphus), 

 Capreolus, Rcmgifer, and Alee, the skin between the hoofs is 



