74 Field Columbian Museum— Zoology, Vol. i. 



Ml ISl REMEN PS. 



FEET. IN' HES, 



Animal. Height at shoulder, I io 1 .. 



Height at rump, ... ... 2 8% 



Length from nose to root of tail, 3 8 



Length of ear outside, o 3^ 



Lengtli of opening, - o 2% 



Antler from burr to extreme tip, - o o 



Brow antler outside, ------ 2% 



Brow antler inside, - - - - - - o i 1 , 



Inner tine inside, o 2- 



Circumference of burr, - o 3% 



Circumference of beam at base, - - - o \= 



Length of humerus, - - - - - o 6.15 



Length of ulna, - - - - - - o 7.25 



Length of radius, ------ 5.50 



Length of metacarpal canon bone, - - - o 4.50 



Length of femur, ---... 7.25 



Length of tibia, - - o 7.75 



Length of metatarsal canon bone, - - - o 5. 50 



Skull. Total length, - - - - - - - o 8.75 



Tip of premaxilla to tip of nasals, ... o 1.20 



Length of nasals, ------- o 2.80 



Anterior rim of orbit to tip of premaxilla, - o 4.50 



Upper end of nasals to fronto-parietal suture, - 3.25 



Width of skull one inch in front of orbits, - o 2.80 



Width of skull two inches in front of orbits, - o 1 . 16 



Extent of upper premolars, - - - - o 1.25 



Extent of upper molars, - - - - - o 1.70 



Extent of lower premolars, - - - o 1.37 



Extentof lower molars. ----- o 1. 80 



Length of premaxilla, o 2.10 



Skull of Total length, - - o 9. 



Female. Tip of premaxilla to tip of nasals, - o 1.30 



Length of nasals, -03. 



Anterior rim of orbit to top of premaxilla, - o 4.75 



Upper end of nasals to fronto-parietal suture, - o 3. 



Width of skull one inch in front of orbit, - o 2.75 



Width of skull two inches in front of orbit, - o 1.00 



Extent of upper premolars, - - - - o 1.10 



Extent of upper molars, ----- o 1.40 



Extent of lower premolars, - - - - o 1.10 



Extent of lower molars, ----- o [.65 



Length .of premaxilla?, ----- o 1.80 



This apparently new species of Rusine deer was procured by 

 Professor Steere in the island of Basilan of the Philippine Archipe- 

 lago. It has certain characters in horns, skull and color of pelage 

 which seem to separate it from all the species Heretofore described, 

 and which would belong to that division of the Cervidae designated 



