Orifices found in certain poisonous Snakes , See. 73 
cuticle of the rattle-snake. The appearance in the Bodroo Pam 
is exactly the same ; but, as the bag in that snake is of a smaller 
size, it was considered unnecessary to give a representation of it. 
In the deer and antelope there are bags, in the same relative 
situation respecting the eye and the nose, resting upon the skull ; 
there is also a cavity in the bone, adapted to receive them. 
The bags vary in size in the different species of these genera. 
The French naturalists have given the name of larmiers to these 
bags, conceiving them to be receptacles for the tears, of which 
the thinner parts evaporating, a substance remains called larmes 
de cerf. 
I requested my friend Mr. Andre to examine these bags in 
the common buck, and to observe their relative position to the 
puncta lachrymalia; his situation in the Earl of Egremont’s 
family, at Petworth, affording him every opportunity for doing it. 
He informs me, that the bags are lined with a cuticle ^aimila r 
to that of the meatus auditor! us externus in the human ear; 
their internal surface is smooth, free from hair, and without any 
appearance of glandular structure. From the inner angle of the 
eye to this bag, there is a kind of gutter in the skin, of a darker 
colour than the rest of the skin in light coloured animals, and 
the hairs are shorter than on the rest of the body : the substance 
contained in the bags resembled that found in the ears. 
The lachrymal gland in the deer, he says, is very large, and 
the puncta so much so, as to admit the rounded end of a common 
probe. There is no lachrymal sac ; the tubes from the puncta 
unite, and pass through a small opening in the bone, to the 
nose. 
The following account of these bagjs, in the antelope of 
Sumatra, was transmitted to me in the year 1792, by Mr. Bell. 
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