LÖNNBERG, ON THE GEOGR. RACES OF RED DEER IN SCANDIN. 7 



The flattened shape of the nasals of tlie norwegian deer 

 makes its nose lower. so that, for instance. its vertical height 

 at the hind-end of the premaxillaries does not attain 50 mm., 

 but usually is less than 45, 

 whiJe the same exceeds 50 in 

 the swedish deer. 



As the nasals at their 

 broadest place constitute the 

 shortest interspace between 

 the antorbital vacuities, it 

 may be concluded from the 

 above description of the 

 shape of the nasals, that this 

 interspace is comparatively 

 and often even absolutely 

 much narrower in the swe- 

 dish race than in the norwe- 

 gian. In the latter, a part 

 of the antorbital vacuity is 

 covered by the nasals so 

 that it does not become so 

 broad as in the former race. 

 The shape is also different. 

 In the swedish race, thanks 

 to the shape and dimensions 

 of the nasals, the antorbital 

 vacuities are much wider, as 

 a rule 28 mm. or more a- 

 gainst 19 or less in the nor- 

 wegian, only in one very large 

 specimen attaining 21 mm. 

 The length of the antorbital 

 vacuity in swedish hinds and 

 3^oung stags is 58 — 63 mm., 

 in norwegian deer 39—47 

 but in a very old and big 

 stag 55 mm. 



The roof of the orbit is even in the strongest norwegian 

 stag very thin and shows one comparatively very large fora- 

 men with a diameter of more than 10 mm., sometimes con- 

 siderably more (fig. 3). The swedish race appears to have 



