Show TEARS OF A DEER of tho tear alt in tl animals in most species of deer a hollow which is known to scientists as the lachrymal sinus or tear pit is found it is a cavity beneath each eye capable of being opened at pleasure in which a waxy substance of a peculiar disagreeable odor is secreted this pit is sometimes very small but often of considerable sid erable size poets speak of the deer weeping lut it has not been bbown this is not by poetic license solely in the case of the wounded stag which the contemplative jaques watched and mor upon it is paid anc LI round fars coursed one ican his vc in but this is poetical in terp of alie appearance presented by the motion of the glistening edges of the folds of altin which enclose the so called tear pits these cavities are very marked in species of deer found in asia und the islands of the indian ocean and in the common deer or america and europe in some in south america and northern asia they are less developed |