OF THE EUKOPEAN AND AMEIMCAN PADGKRS. 



429 



tlie following pnssiige : — "[tliere] is n Cfiiidal pouch dii-ectly under 

 the origin of the tail, . . . but quite distinct from, and wholly 

 unconnected with, the anus or genital organs. The sac is formed 

 by dnpl-cate folds of the connnon integument, having a. lining of 

 naked membrane, secreting a brown nnctuons nhatter, not unlike 

 cerunjen, or wax of the car" *. 



Text-figui-e 21. 



A. Kciir end of ITeles nicies, nialo, sliowiiig tlu' subcandal and anal pouches 



distended nearl}' to the fullest extent. 



B. The same of the female, hut with the pouches rather less distended 



transversely. 



Gairdner supplements this account as follows: — "Two scent 

 glands were found discharging into tlie postcaudal pocket. The 

 secretion was brownish yellow and the hind parts were stained 

 by the flow, and the stench so pei-vaded th.e beast that the coolies 

 were unable to eat it " f. 



In the male of Meles the hairy scrotum is situated just below 

 tlie rim of the circumanal sac, which, except in the middle line, 

 is covered with short hairs. The haculinn. has been figured and 



* Journ. Asiatic Soc. Benual, viii. ])t. i. p. 408 (1839). 



t Journ. Nat. Hist. 8oc. Siam, i. no. 4, p. 253 (1915). From the passage quoted 

 it appears that the secretion of the glands of Arctnvi/.r is much stronger in smell 

 than that of Meles. Ileles has the hahit, observable in Mongooses and Civets, with 

 analogous glands, of rubbing the secretion on objects so that the scent is dis- 

 seminated. 



