On the soft Anatomy of the Black-buck of India (Antilope cervi- 

 capra (Lin.)) compared with that of other Ruminants. 



Professor Tycho Tullberg has kindly placed at my disposition 

 a young male specimen of Antilope cervicaprà from which the following 

 notes have been taken. The total length of this young buck was 

 102 cm. 



The palate showed about Hi or 17 pairs of Iransversal plicae 

 or elevations. The anterior ones of these are most developed and 

 very feebly crenulated or almost smooth, the posterior ones are quite 

 smooth. They are thus more similar to those of the sheep than the 

 same of the Saiga which latter, according to Murie 1 ), are »fringed». 

 The number of palatal elevations in the Black-buck exceeds, however, 

 that offcboth the others. The buccal papilhe of this animal are rather 

 short and blunt. Almost all of them are single-pointed. In a male 

 Madoqua mit i ana 1 found 1-f pairs of palatal elevations in a female 

 only 12.' 



The papilla incisiva is roundish, thus different from the triangu- 

 lar one in the sheep. In Madoqua it is also a round cushion but from 

 the surrounding groove goes not only, as in the Black-buck, a median 

 groove forward to the upper lip, but also one towards each side. The 

 caruncula sublingualis of the Black-buck is formed by a larger triangu- 

 lar flap anteriorly, close behind which is another smaller ene, and 

 about 3 mm. behind this one is a third of nearly the same shape and 

 size as the second. In this respect the Black-buck agrees pretty well 

 with Ovis and Capra. In Madoqua the anterior flap is digitiform and 

 the posterior ones missing. The salivary glands of this young Black- 

 buck were destroyed to such an extent or transformed by disease 

 that it is best not to say anything about them. 



The tonsillary glands are flattened, elliptic in outline with the di- 

 mensions 20 X 15 X 7 mm. There are on one side three, on the 

 other four tonsillary openings partly closed by wart-like prominences. 

 In Saiga there is only one such opening on each side according to Murie^. 



l ) Proc. Zool. Soc, London 1870. 



