In the young female from Moupin the milk canine teeth are in
place, their permanent successors appearing, in the dry skull, above
them. In the male of the same age from Ningpo, the tusks have a
remarkably permanent appearance, and there is no evidence from
the condition of the maxillary bones that they belong to the milk
series. Such being the case, it must be presumed that the milk
canines in the male are shed earlier than in the females, as it is not
in accordance with any known facts that they should have persistent
pulps which would remove any necessity for their replacement.
Anatomy of the Alimentary Canal and other Viscera.
The muffle is more considerable than in the Elaphine Deer, but
resembles that of the Rusine and Muntjacs in extending upwards
along the outer border of each nostril as far as its superior margin.
The canine tusks protrude an inch below the upper lip, and mark the
lower lip at the spots at which they come into contact with them.
The palate in front of the intermolar region is transversely ridged’
by folds of the mucous membrane, slightly crenulated at their free
backwardly directed edges. These folds are deficient in the middle
line; and those on one side are not continuous with those of the other,
but with the spaces which intervene between them. The intermolar
region and the palatal surface behind it are smooth, and black instead
of flesh-coloured, as it is anteriorly.
