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in the shape of a ridge. The ulna is continued from the olecranon to the carpus. The canal 

 of the medullary artery enters the femur at the upper and fore part of the shaft, and inclines 

 downwards. The metapophysis passes abruptly from its situation on the diapophysis in the 

 twelfth dorsal to above the zygapophysis in the thirteenth. The last cervical is imperforate 

 at its transverse process, which consists of the diapophysis only. The cannon-bones are less 

 deeply grooved than in the Rein-deer. 



Hunterian. 



3537. An incomplete skeleton of a young male Fallow-deer (Cervus Dama}. 



The vertebral formula is the same as in the preceding specimen. 



MttS. South. 



3538. The skull of a male Fallow-deer (Cervus Dama). 



The frontal bones do not extend so far back as in the Rein-deer, and the antlers, in conse- 

 quence, rise at a greater distance from the occipital crest. The lacrymal bone has two 

 perforations at its outer border, and its facial plate is nearly equally divided into an upper 

 convex and a lower concave surface. 



Hunterian. 



3539. The skull of a male Fallow-deer (Cervus Dama). 



The antlers have been sawed off ahove the burr, and the teeth removed from one side of 

 both jaws. The external lacrymal fossse are entire. The canal at the base of the zygoma 

 for the venous sinus, which perforates the squampsal, is well shown. 



Hunterian. 



3540. The skull of a male Fallow-deer (Cervus Dama}. 



The antlers have been shed, and the short pedicels terminate in slightly concave surfaces. 

 The premaxillaries attain the nasals. There are no rudimentary canines or alveoli for such. 



Presented by His Grace the Duke of Marlborough. 



3541. The cranium of a male Fallow-deer (Cervus Dama). 



The depression in the facial plate of the lacrymal is larger and deeper than in the preceding 

 skull, and communicates by a perforation with the olfactory chamber. 



Purchased. 



3542. The cranium, longitudinally bisected, of a Fallow-deer. 



The constituent bones are numbered on coloured labels according to the TABLE or 

 SYNONYMS. 



Presented by Prof. Owen, F.R.S. 



3543. The cranium of a Fallow-deer (Cervus Dama). 



The antlers are fully developed, but ' in velvet,' that is, prior to the shedding of the vas- 

 cular integument subservient to their growth. 



Hunterian. 



