284 MULE-HUNTING EXPEDITION. 
lips, a large and most conspicuous patch on either 
side the tail, pure white. The white meeting 
the brown of the back about midway on the 
sides, forms a well-defined waving line. Horns, 
hoofs, and nose black. The horns (so marked 
a feature in the prong-buck) are placed very far 
back, and much compressed in a lateral direction 
to about a third of their height, where they give 
out a thin triangular bracket-shaped prong, pro- 
jecting upwards and forwards. Above this. snag, 
the horns have a shiny surface, are rounded, and 
taper gradually to a sharp tip, bent into a hook. 
The horns vary greatly in the males. I have 
sometimes shot them with the prong hardly 
developed, sometimes springing from the horn 
near the tip, and in others growing close to 
the head, where it is always uneven and warty. 
The female is devoid of horns, or only has them 
in a rudimentary condition. 
The eyes of the prong-buck are black, large, 
and expressive, but not a trace exists of a lar- 
mier or crumen, a glandular opening beneath 
the eyes, so conspicuous in the generality of deer. 
The hoofs are narrow and acute, but no trace 
exists of the supplementary hoofs usually found in 
ail ruminants, situated just above the pasterns, at 
the back of the legs. The ears are very long, and 
