LÖNNBERG, ON THE GEOGR. RACES OF RED DEER IN SCANDIX. 11 



]ower orbital brim to the last molar is sinular to the same 

 dimension in swedish deer viz. 42 — 45 mm., and tlie same is 

 the case with the height of tlie maxillary above the foremost 

 molar, 41 — 32 mm., and 

 the height of the maxillary 

 above the foremost pre- 

 molar, 60 mm. 



It may be concluded 

 from this t hat the scotch 

 deer is a small race with 

 the facial portion of the 

 skull shorter and thicker 

 than that of the norwe- 

 gian deer, and with regard 

 to the dimensions of height 

 and breadth of that part 

 of the skull rather resemb- 

 ling the swedish deer. In 

 other characteristies it so- 

 metimes approaches the 

 swedish sometimes tlie 

 norwegian deer and can- 

 not be united with either 

 of them. It is accordingly 

 neither identical with the 

 typical race of southern 

 Sweden nor with the race 

 of western Norway and 

 most probably forms an 

 independent geographical 

 race or subspecies which 

 suitably may be termed 

 scoticus. In Lydekker's 

 book »The Deer of All 

 Lands» it is stated that 

 the scotch deer >>exhibit 



in their relatively small dimensions the characteristics of an 

 island race» and also that it lives »under conditions quite 

 different from those natural to the species in other lands». 



Of the irish red deer I have only seen a female skull 

 kindly lent to me by Dr. Scharff of the Dublin museum. 



Fig. 



Skull of aii irisli hind from above. 



