. On the anatomy of vertebrates [electronic resource] . season, and the secretion then has a strongmusky odour. § 366. Opening upon the trunk. — In certain tropical bats(Cheiromeles torquatus, Cheir. candatus, ) a glandular sacexudes upon the forepart of the breast, near the axilla, a brownishsebaceous secretion of a penetrating submusky odour. In many Shrews two longitudinal series or groups of glandulartubes, open upon the flanks, at a part surrounded by short hairs;the tubes are tortuous and closely conglomerated at their blindends, but become straighter near their termination. The pecu
. On the anatomy of vertebrates [electronic resource] . season, and the secretion then has a strongmusky odour. § 366. Opening upon the trunk. — In certain tropical bats(Cheiromeles torquatus, Cheir. candatus, ) a glandular sacexudes upon the forepart of the breast, near the axilla, a brownishsebaceous secretion of a penetrating submusky odour. In many Shrews two longitudinal series or groups of glandulartubes, open upon the flanks, at a part surrounded by short hairs;the tubes are tortuous and closely conglomerated at their blindends, but become straighter near their termination. The peculiarodour, more or less musky, of iSoricidce, is due to the secretion ofthese glands, and makes the shrew-mouse unacceptable as food tothe cat that may have killed it. In the Peccari, a large gland, fig. 496, consisting of manylobes, exudes its secretion by an orifice, ib. b, on the midlinetoward the hinder part of the back. The resemblance of thisorifice to the navel on the opposite part of the trunk suggested PECULIAR GLANDS OF MAMMALIA. C35 496. Dorsal scent-gland, Peccari; one-third nat. size. to Linneus the term Dicotyles, for this genus of S. Americanporcine animals. In many Antelopes there are situated in the groin, external tothe nipples in the females, glandular depressions of the skin, orpouches, sometimes oflarge size, as in Anti-lope corinna, , inwhich the secretion isyellow, like presence or ab-sence of the groin-pitsin the different speciesof Antelopes is noticedin the table, p. 633. The most notable de-velopment of scent-glands and bags, at the groin, are those which open into theprepuce of the small Ruminant, called on account of the odour ofthe secretion e Musk-deer (Moschus moschiferus). The fullydeveloped gland at the fundus of the sac may be three inches indiameter and one inch at its thickest part; the moist secretionaccumulates in the cavity 497of the tegumentary pouch,and constitutes, when dried,the costly medicament orperfume, musk. T
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