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Show 1877.] MR. A. H. GARROD ON THE MUSK-DEER. 289 S.Cobbold, in his article "Ruminantia," in the Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology1, where it is excellently figured, as it is also by the same author, although much less accurately, in the 'Proceedings'2 of this Society. I take the present opportunity of depicting its condition in Moschus, and have had placed side by side with it a drawing of the homologous gland in the Fallow Deer (Cervus dama)t where it is comparatively smaller (figs. 1, 2). This gland is pro- Fig. 1. Fig. 2. Heo-ajccal gland of Moschus : Ilio-cajcal gland of Cervus dama : a, orifice a, orifice of small intestine. of small intestine. bably to be found in other members of the Order ; but I regret that till quite recently, not having had m y attention specially called to it, I have not taken the opportunity of looking for it. In future I will do so, and will inform the Society of the results of m y search3. I could find no Peyer's patches. The liver was more elongate and not so deep as that figured by Prof. Flower. The gall-bladder was lodged in a shallow fossa, its fundus not nearly reaching the free margin of the organ. The caudate lobe was lateral, and far from large. The spigelian lobe was absent-a fact which demonstrates, what specimens of Cephalophus pygmeeus and Camelopardalis giraffa had previously taught me, the 1 Vol. v. p. 540, fig. 363. 2 P. Z. S. 1860, p. 104, pl. lxxviii. 3 Since this paper was read I have examined the ileo-cascal region of the colon in Alces machlis, where the gland is large and very much like that of the Giraffe-in Cervus virginianus, where it is oval, made up of shallow glands, and an inch long-and in Tragelaphus scriptus and Oryx beisa, where it agrees with that in C. virginianus. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1877, No. XIX. 19 |