10 ARKIV rÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 3. NiO 9. 



erfrischung» is of ten done without any consideration to race, 

 origin etc. of the deer which are meant to be fa von red by 

 this proceeding. Through this uncritical mixing the red 

 deer of many distriets are rather a product of artificial than 

 natural breeding and siich animals or their structures cannot 

 be discussed when it is the question of natural races and 

 geographic subspecies. Nevertheless a few words may be said. 

 From Scotland I have succeeded in obtaining skulls of 

 two stags from Tnvernesshire, Glenquoich Forest. The nasals 

 of these two specimens are not so flattened as in the nor- 

 wegian deer b ut form along their whole extension a roof- 

 like ridge as in the swedish deer. In addition to this the 

 profile coiitour of the nasals is somewhat convex while it is 

 straight in the norwegian race of deer. To judge from 

 the shape of the nasals the scotch deer appear to have a 

 tendency to »Rammsnase». With regard to the relation be- 

 tween length and breadth of these bones as Avell, the scotch 

 deer seems to approach the swedish deer more than the nor- 

 wegian. The greatest breadth of both nasals is namely con- 

 tained more than 3 times in their length in one specimen, 

 2 ^5 times in the other. The anteorbital vacuity of the 

 scotch deer is not very great and agrees in size and shape 

 more with that of the norwegian than wdth that of the swe- 

 dish deer. The supraorbital foramen is also single and very 

 large as in the norwegian deer. The scotch deer seems to be 

 a slenderly built animal. Although the skulls, I have carry 

 5 tines on either side (except on the left side of one) their 

 basicranial length is only 311 and about 319. The length of 

 the upper molar series is even shorter than in the norwegian 

 deer, viz. 92 and 97 mm. resp. The facial portion of the 

 skull is short so that the distance from the tip of the pre- 

 maxillary to the anterior brim of the orbit is resp. 195 and 

 197 mm. thus more similar to the same measurement of the 

 norwegian^ than that of the swedish deer. The width of the 

 skull just behind the premaxillaries is somewhat greater than 

 the same of norwegian deer of similar size and agreeing 

 with the same in swedish deer viz. 61 and 56 mm. resp. 

 The zygomatic width at the hind-end of the jugale of scotch 

 deer agrees with the same of swedish deer viz. measuring 

 139 and 143 mm. In a similar way the distance from the 



^ Witli similar basicranial length. 



