The skull of the little Montjac, or Barking deer, is of interest
as showing better than any other the relation of the antler to its
pedestal. The pedestal is very long and the antler very small. The
latter usually possesses only two tines, the main one and a short stout
one which grows near its base. From the front of the pedestal there
runs a strong bony ridge down the outer border of the frontal bone as
far as the junction with the nasal. This evidently gives strength to
the prolonged and rather slender pedestal.
SKULL OF A LLAMA (Camel of America).
The skull of the Llama resembles that of the Camel, and both differ
from those of the other ruminants in having incisor teeth in the upper
jaw. “These teeth are placed at the side of the intermaxillary bone
close to the canines, and agree with them in form” (Van der Hoven, vol.
ii., 644).
“There are six incisors only in the lower jaw, and this jaw is
undivided.”
The camels and llamas form transition species between horses and oxen
(ruminants and solid-ungulates).