J). CAPHEOLUS. 81 



of the metatarsus. Fur thick, brittle hair in winter, and more flex- 

 ible iu summer. The end of nose and upper lip and hinder edge 

 of lower lip black ; spot under nostrils and front of chin white. 

 (Gray, Cat. Ungiil. B. M. p. 221, pi. 33. f. 1 ; Blasius, Siiugeth. 

 Deutseh. p. 463. f. 239.) 



1. Capreolus caprasa. (The Roebuck.) B.M. 



Hair short. 



Capreolus caprfea, Gray, Cat. Uiigul B. M. p. 222, t. 33. f. 1, t. 34. 



f. 3 (skull). 

 Capreolus capreolus, Blasius, Sdugeih. Deutseh. p. 457, f. 238, 239 



(horns). 



Hob. Europe. 



In the Museum is a skin received from the Zoological Society in 

 1858, without any habitat, of a Roebuck in bright brown summer 

 coat. It has rather deformed horns in the process of development, 

 having the front snag rather nearer the base than usual, and having 

 a strong conical process on the hinder base of the left horn, some- 

 what like the lobe of Xe)i''J(q)]ius. 



In the British Museum there is a skull (No. 6880) which has 

 been considered that of a Roebuck with very much deformed horns, 

 which was received from the Museum of the Zoological Society, 

 without any habitat. At first sight the horns have some resemblance 

 to those of XeneJaphus leucotis, and, Uke it, the horns on the two 

 sides are very different ; but in Xenelaplms the peculiar projection 

 is from the back of the base of the horn, and here it is an extreme 

 development of a snag from the front of the base of the horn, which 

 is three-lobed at the end, two smaller lobes being directed forward 

 and much below the erect tip. 



The right horn resembles a much-developed, but rather irregularly 

 divided form of a Roebuck-horn, with very thick and very deep longi- 

 tudinal grooves, having high ridges and nodulous on the edges, 

 occupying the whole length of the main beam to the burr, just 

 above which they are largest and deepest ; and it has on the inner 

 side of the first furcation a thick, short, recurved snag. The left 

 horn is like the other, but much tliicker at the base ; the recurved 

 snag on the inner side is much longer and more slender ; but the 

 usual anterior snag of this furcation is reduced to a very small 

 conical prominence ; and what seems to be equivalent to the hinder 

 lower snag of the other horn is a dilated flattened process at the 

 base, divided into two slender unequal lobes at the top ; but the 

 great peculiarity of this horn is the existence of a branch springing 

 from the front of the base of the main beam about half as large as 

 the horn itself, and having two conical divergent snaga on the front 

 part of the middle of its length. (P. Z. S. 1871, p. 601, fig.) 



