284 MULE-HUNTING EXPEDITION. 



lips, a large and most conspicuous patch on either 

 side the tail, pure white. The white meeting 

 the brown of the back about midway on the 

 sides, forms a well-defined waving line. Horns, 

 hoofs, and nose black. The horns (so marked 

 a feature in the prong-buck) are placed very far 

 back, and much compressed in a lateral direction 

 to about a third of their height, where they give 

 out a thin triangular bracket-shaped prong, pro- 

 jecting upwards and forwards. Above this snag, 

 the horns have a shiny surface, are rounded, and 

 taper gradually to a sharp tip, bent into a hook. 

 The horns vary greatly in the males. I have 

 sometimes shot them with the prong hardly 

 developed, sometimes springing from the horn 

 near the tip, and in others growing close to 

 the head, where it is always uneven and warty. 

 The female is devoid of horns, or only has them 

 in a rudimentary condition. 



The eyes of the prong-buck are black, large, 

 and expressive, but not a trace exists of a lar- 

 mier or crumen, a glandular opening beneath 

 the eyes, so conspicuous in the generality of deer. 

 The hoofs are narrow and acute, but no trace 

 exists of the supplementary hoofs usually found in 

 all ruminants, situated just above the pasterns, at 

 the back of the legs. The ears are very long, and 



