308' Scientific Notices — Zoology. [AtRit,' 



other antler, which comes off from the beam, we may call the 

 sur- antler : in this specimen it consists of a broad plate or palra, 

 concave on its upper surface, horizontal in its direction, and 

 forked into two points anteriorly, an appearance which I have 

 not observed in any other specimen of upwards of forty which I 

 have seen, nor do I find it marked in any of the plates of those 

 Tsones extant. There is one antler given off posteriorly from the 

 junction of the beam with the palm; it runs directly backwards 

 parallel to the corresponding one of the opposite horn. The 

 inferior edge of the palra beyond this runs outwards and back- 

 wards: it is obtuse and thick, and its length is two feet six 

 inches. From the anterior and external borders of each palm 

 there come off six long pointed antlers. None of these are 

 designated by any particular name. The number of the antlers 

 of both sides taken together is twenty-two. The surface of the 

 horns is of a hghtish colour, resembling that of the marl in 

 which they were found ; they are rough, and marked with 

 several arborescent grooves where the ramifications of the arte- 

 ries by which they had been nourished during their growing 

 state were lodged. The horns, with the head attached, weighed 

 eighty-seven pounds avoirdupois. The distance between their 

 extreme tips in aright line is nine feet two inches. Head. — The 

 forehead is marked by aiaised ridge extended between the roots 

 of the horns ; anterior to this, between the orbits and the root 

 of the nose, the skull is flat ; there is a depression on each side 

 in front of the root of the horn and over the orbit capable of 

 lodging the last joint of the thumb, at the bottom of which is the 

 superciliary hole, large enough to give passage to an artery 



Proportioned to the size of the horns. Inferior to the orbit we 

 ave the lachrymatory fossa, and the opening left by the defi- 

 ciency of bone common to all deer, and remarkable for being 

 smaller in this than in any other species. Below the orbits the 

 skull grows suddenly narrower, and the upper parts of the nasal 

 bones become contracted by a depression on either side, at the 

 lower part of which is the infra-orbit ar hole. The opening of 

 the nares is oval, being five inches long by three broad, the 

 greatest breadth being in the centre. From the roots of the 

 horns to the occipital spine measures three inches and an half; 

 the occiput descends at a right angle with this, being three 

 inches deep to the foramen magnum : the greatest breadth of the 

 occiput is eight inches. The temporal fossa approach to within 

 two inches of each other behind the horns. Teeth. — They do not 

 differ from those of animals of the ruminating class. The inci- 

 sors were not found, having dropped out; there is no mark of 

 canine teeth ; the raolares are not much worn down, and are 

 tvi^enty-four in number. The skeleton measures, from the end 

 of the nose to the tip of the tail, ten feet ten inches. The spine 

 consists of twenty-six vertebras, viz. seven cervical, thirteen 

 dorsal, and six lumbar. The size of the cervical vertebrae greatly 



