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fact regarding the production of malformed horns has recently 

 been brought to my notice by Dr. A. Barry, at present Superin- 

 tendent of Matheran. It bears on the probable influence that 

 certain injuries may exert on the growth of antlers. We know 

 that a common operation will stop the growth in the young male, or 

 cause a deteriorated horn in the adult, which remains permanent, and 

 is not shed annually. Dr. Barry had a tame Cheetal stag, with fine 

 horns of normal shape. He had a severe accident, breaking one of 

 his hind legs; the following and successive years the antler on the 

 side opposite to his injured leg was deformed. Now against this 

 I bring forward a case of another Cheetal stag in the Kurrachee 

 Gardens. This creature jumped out of a window, and broke one of 

 his fore legs, the injury had no effect whatever on his horns. In 

 Dr. Barry's stag the injury was probably communicated sympatheti- 

 cally to the internal organs, and such cases may be more frequent 

 in the jungles than we imagine, and so lead to the numerous 

 examples we have collected of abnormal antlers. I have figured on 

 stone, from water colour sketches by Major Gr. It. R. Poole, of the 12th 

 Lancers, two very curious Sambar horns, very massive and large, 

 which he saw hung up in the outer Court of the Jeypore Museum. 

 He wrote — " The thick ten-pointed one is a Sambar, without 

 doubt, the other eight-pointed one is, I believe, a Sambar. I know the 

 Kashmir stag well, and do not think it was one. The heads were 

 hung so high that I could not get at them, but should say the massive 

 one was about 40 inches, or getting on for it. The other seemed two 

 or three inches longer." It is doubtful whether the latter is not an 

 immature horn of Oervus Cashmirianus, but I am inclined to think 

 not from its size. If, therefore, it be a Sambar, it shows a curious 

 progression from the Rusine to the Cervine or Elaphine type, the 

 bez-tines being of perfectly normal shape and size it only requires 

 the addition of a tres-tine to make it an Elaphine antler. I have 



written to enquire further about' these horns. 



R. A. S. 



NEW SPECIES OF FISH FROM KURRACHEE 

 AND THE PERSIAN GULF. 



By James A. Murray, late Curator of the Kurrachee Museum. 

 Salarias Pulcher — Sp. nov. 

 Head vertically rounded in front with a pair of inter-orbital ten- 

 tacles, none on the nape; eyes placed forward, the orbital ridge 



