. The annals and magazine of natural history : zoology, botany, and geology. much reduced, butis broad between the narrowed inner ends of the nostrils;beneath the septum it is continued down the upper lip asa short mesially grooved philtrum, which rapidly narrowsfrom its wide base to its pointed lower end which reachesthe inferior edge of the upper lip. Dorsally it extends asa moist baud along the upper lid of the nostril, but fallsshort of the posterior angle of the nostril by some distance;on the lower lid of the nostril there is no rhinarial extension I Characiers of Ruminant Artw
. The annals and magazine of natural history : zoology, botany, and geology. much reduced, butis broad between the narrowed inner ends of the nostrils;beneath the septum it is continued down the upper lip asa short mesially grooved philtrum, which rapidly narrowsfrom its wide base to its pointed lower end which reachesthe inferior edge of the upper lip. Dorsally it extends asa moist baud along the upper lid of the nostril, but fallsshort of the posterior angle of the nostril by some distance;on the lower lid of the nostril there is no rhinarial extension I Characiers of Ruminant Artwdactyla. 215 of moist skin. From the dorsal aspect the rhinariuniappears as a crescentic band, tliicker raesially iu front tlianposteriorly at tiie sides, the hairs on the npper side of themuzzle spreading far forwards between the nostrils, forminga well-defined field with an evenly convex antero-lateraledge. The surface of the rhinarium is covered with areticulation of grooves defining low rounded jjreorbital gland is marked exten^ally by a slightly ^-?^. A. Muzzle and rhinarium of Damaliscus nlbifruns from the front. X 5. B. The same from above. C. The same from the side. D. Extremity of the penis of D. pijfjaryus from below. E. The same from the riffht side. raised circular naked area, with a central orifice leadinginto a short cylindrical tube penetrating about halfway intothe substance of the thick gland. Inguinal glands are absent, and there is a single pair ofmammae. The pedal glands, like those of other Bubalines I havealready described, are well developed only on the fore feetwhere they consist of a deep and long interdigital pouchoverlapped to a great extent above bv the folded integumen^ 16* 216 Mr. R. T. Pocock on some of the pastern, but with a comparatively long slit-like the hind foot the gland is represented merely by ashallow naked depression. Damaliscuspygargus, Pall. Differs in none of the particulars described above fromD. albifrons,
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