CATALOGUE 



OF 



UNGULATES. 



YOL. IV. 



SUBORDER ARTIODACTYLA {continued). 



Section A. — PECORA {continued). 



Family IV.— CERVIDiE. 



Pecoba, in which the cranial appendages — generally 

 restricted to the males, and in a few cases absent even in 

 that sex — take the form of (usually) branched, bony, solid, 

 deciduous antlers, supported on permanent skin-covered 

 pedicles arising from the frontal bones ; upper canines 

 generally present, very long in those genera which lack 

 antlers in both sexes ; lower canines with simple, uncleft 

 crowns (fig. 1) ; cheek-teeth generally low-crowned (brachyo- 

 dont); lateral toes generally present, with the constituent 

 bones fully developed ; lateral metacarpals wanting either 

 upper or lower ends ; * gall-bladder nearly always wanting ; 

 placenta with few cotyledons. 



In all cases, with the possible exception of Moschus, 

 there are two pairs of teats, and inguinal glands are invari- 

 ably wanting. Face-glands are nearly always present 

 (absent in Capreohts) ; tarsal, metatarsal, and interdigital 



• The term plesiometacarpalian is applied to those genera in 

 which the upper ends of the lateral metacarpals persist, and telemeta- 

 earpalian to those in which the reverse condition obtains. 



IV. B 



