10 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



d- Vomer dividing posterior aperture of nostrils 

 into two distinct chambers. 

 d^. Naviculo-cuboid of tarsus free from cunei- 

 form. 

 (/'. Metatarsal glands normally present, 

 tarsal glands always developed. 

 d''. Antlers normally complex, with sub- 

 basal snag, and front-prong of main 

 fork developed at expense of hind 



one Odocoileus. 



c*. Metatarsal glands wanting. 



c''. Antlers diohotomously forking, with- 

 out subbasal snag and with more 



than two tines Blastocerus. 



e°. Antlers simply forked Hippocamelus. 



e'. Antlers simple spikes Mazam a. 



c°'. Navioulo - cuboid of tarsus fused with 

 cuneiform. Antlers minute ; no meta- 

 tarsal, tarsal, or pedal glands Piidii. 



II. Antlers present in females; muzzle completely 

 hairy. 

 Lateral metacarpals and vomer as in Odocoileus. ... Bangifer. 



II. Genus MUNTIACUS. 



]\Iuntiacus, Rafinesque, Analyse de la Nature, p. 56, 1815. 



Cervulus, Blainville, Bull. Sac. Pliilom. 1816, p. 77 ; Brooke, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 898 ; Biitimeyer, Ahh. schweiz. jial. Oes. 



vol. viii, p. 23, 1881 ; Blanford, Fauna Brit. India, Mamm. 



p. 531. 1891; LydeT<hcr. Deer of all Lands, p. 203, 1898;- 



PococJc, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 952. 

 Muntjaccus, Oray, Thomson' s Ann. PJiilos. vol. xxvi, p. 342, 1825. 

 Stylooerns, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. v, p. 819, 



1827. 

 Prox, Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 135. 

 Muntjacus, Oray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 173, 1843. 



Small, high-lumped deer, with the lateral metacarpals 

 represented by their upper extremities (plesiometacarpalian 

 type), tusk-like upper canines, and small simple antlers, 

 consisting of a basal brow-tine and a beam, and surmounting 

 long bony pedicles, continued downwards as prominent 

 convergent ridges on the frontal region of the skull; in 

 females the pedicles represented by tufts of bristly hair and 

 small bony prominences. Suborbital face-glands large, a pair 

 of frontal glands of variable size on the inner sides of the 

 'frontal ridges, and glands forming deep clefts on front of 

 hind-pasterns, but no tarsal or metatarsal glands or tufts ; 

 face long, with a large bare muffle extending up between the 



