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EiNAE Lönnberg, 



rous and have there a size fully twice as large as that dl' the ante- 

 rior ones, oi- more. There are in the Black-buck basally 7 or 8 pa- 

 lu'l/n circumvallata on each side, but some of these are not quite ty- 

 pical. They arc irregularly distributed in two rows. This number is 

 low compared with the same in common sheep and goats: hut also 

 in the Saiga these papillae are »fe\v» according to Murie (1. a). In 

 Madoqua saltiana the papillœ circumvallatœ are rather irregularly ar- 

 ranged and in consequence of the great size of the fungiform papillae 

 posteriorly it is often very difficult to decide whether a papilla belongs 

 to this or that class. In a male specimen I found about a dozen un- 

 mistakable circumvallate papilla? arranged in four oblique short series. 

 In a female the number seems to be about the same but the arrange- 

 ment is less regular. The Dik-dik differs thus with regard to the ar- 

 rangement of these papillae from the Antilope. In the sheep these papillae 

 sit in four rows but are more numerous as already stated. The Gnu 

 has a similar number of such papilla? as the Black-buck but as the 

 number of papilla' clnunncallatfe is rather variable even in the same 

 species it cannot be considered to be of much classificatory importance. 



When seen from the right side the distance from the cardia to 

 the blind end of the dorsisinistral sack of the paunch is in its present, 

 moderately distended state 240 mm. 1 ! and the distance from the car- 

 dia to the blind end of the ventridextral sack is 275 mm. 1 ) The 

 breadth of both sacks is about the same or 12,5 mm. 1 ) from sulcus 

 longitudinalis dexter to either side. Both sacks are rounded at their 

 blind ends. Sulcus coronarius of the ventridextral sack is well de- 

 veloped and the blind sack limited by the same measures about 1 1 

 cm. in length by 10,5 in breadth. 



When seen from the left side the ventral sack measures 250 

 mm. and the dorsal 2-10 mm. in length. 



The diameters of the reticulum arc about 10,5; 9,5: 7,5 cm. It 

 is almost heartshaped with the rounded point forming its anterior fun- 

 dus, the communication with the paunch is at one auricle and the 

 other protrudes like a blind sack beyond the opening to the psalterium. 



This latter is very small, beanshaped with its diameters measur- 

 ing resp. 45; 30: 25 mm. 



') These figures agree perfectly with the renewed measurements obtained from the 

 with air distended and dried stomach. The absolute correspondence of the measurements 

 in both cases prove their correctness. 



