. The Cambridge natural history. Zoology. 282 DEERLETS Fam. 4. Tragulidae.^This family comprises a number of small Deer-like animals, which are really in many points more related to the Pigs than to the true Deer. They are known as Chevrotains ; and the term " Deerlet," introduced by Professor Clarrod, is certainly appropriate, since they have the aspect of very small and hornless Deer. If it were not for their Artio- dactyle feet one might at a glance confuse these creatures with some Marsupial type. The family is Oriental and West African The two genera (whose individual peculiarit
. The Cambridge natural history. Zoology. 282 DEERLETS Fam. 4. Tragulidae.^This family comprises a number of small Deer-like animals, which are really in many points more related to the Pigs than to the true Deer. They are known as Chevrotains ; and the term " Deerlet," introduced by Professor Clarrod, is certainly appropriate, since they have the aspect of very small and hornless Deer. If it were not for their Artio- dactyle feet one might at a glance confuse these creatures with some Marsupial type. The family is Oriental and West African The two genera (whose individual peculiarities will m Fia. 147.âIndian Chevrotain. Tragulus meminna. x J. be considered later) differ from other Artiodactyles in a number of rather important characters. They are absolutely hornless in both sexes. The canines are present in both jaws, and are especially well developed in the upper jaw. The dental formula is I â §- C ^ Pm |- M |-. In the skull the tympanic bulla is usually, as in the non-ruminating Artiodactyles, filled with loose bony tissue. The feet (usually) have the four toes of the Suina, and are therefore in a more primi- tive condition than in Deer and Antelopes. But as the middle metacarpals are fused in Tragulus (though separate in Hijomosclmis) they are a stage further than are the Pigs, in the direction of the typical Euminants. The stomach is comparatively simple, thus offering inter-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harmer, S. F. (Sidney Frederic), Sir, 1862- ed; Shipley, A. E. (Arthur Everett), Sir, 1861-1927. ed. [London, Macmillan and Co. , Limited; New York, The Macmillan Company
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