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Show 1 ft. 10 in.; cii'cumference of fore foot 1 ft. 8 in. The calf was a female, and the most noticeable external characteristic was the large amount of hair upon the body, particularly upon the limbs. The macroscopic features of the Elephant's placenta are known ; but the following notes with which Dr. Stevens has furnished me are of value, since the opportunities of studying this organ have not been many :- 1. It is typically zonciry, consisting of a belt of placental structure, approximately 10 inches in breadth on an average. Some parts were wider than others, and in places, being torn, there was a difficulty of estimation. The belt was divided into three chief masses as shown in the rough diagram (see text-fig. 61, A, p. 322). The greatest thickness of the placental tissue was Itj inches. 2. The placental tissue was somewhat broken up into cotyledons, as one finds in the human placenta. 3. The cord, 40 inches long, was inserted mainly into one placental mass, and from this point large vessels radiated under the amnion to the other placental masses. 4. There were two arteries and one vein in the umbilical cord. No obvious Wharton's jelly was present, only a dense connective tissue around the vessels and not much of that. 5. The membranes were torn at one end, where the fcetus escaped, but the other end of the amniotic cylinder was intact. 6. Scattered all over the membranes and in the substance of the amnion were the " subcircular bodies " (Oiven) (text-fig. 61, B, p. 322)-most numerous near the placenta, least so at the extremities of the amniotic cylinder. These bodies are somewhat like buttons in appearance, with an elevated rim and a depressed centre. Microscopically they consist of fibrous tissue devoid of structure, and showing no nuclei or cellular contents. 1902.] MR.. R. LYDEKKER OX THE MARKHOR OF CABUL. 323 The following papers were read :- 1. Note on the Markhor of Cabul. By R. L y d e k k e r . [Received October 10, 1902.] (Plate X X V II.) In my work entitled the ‘ W ild Oxen, Sheep, and Goats of All Lands,' I was unable to give any description of the Cabul race of the Markhor (Capra falconeri megaceros), save such as may be gathered from the skull and horns, for the very sufficient reason that I had never seen any other part of the animal. Recently the British Museum has acquired the skin, in the winter coat, of a remarkably fine male of this race, shot by a British officer in Chitral. The horns are essentially those of the Cabul race, being intermediate in form between the Pir-Panjal 21* |