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specimen, although the interspace between their origins and their distance from the occipital 

 ridge is the same : their growth, however, had not been completed when the animal was killed. 

 The difference in the antlers may be accounted for partly from this circumstance, and still 

 more by a difference in the age of the specimens. In the ' Osteological Catalogue' of 1831 

 these antlers are entered as belonging to a ' Young American Elk,' but a comparison with 

 No. 3509 will show how widely they differ from the form of the antlers of the young of that 

 species, as well as in their relative position to the occipital ridge, which is so strongly deve- 

 loped in the present specimen, as to indicate that it belonged to a very old rather than a very 

 young animal. 



Mus. Leverian. 



3573. An antler which, in the bifurcation of its beam and the proportions of its 

 brow-snag, approaches nearest to the type of the antler of the Cervus Virgi- 

 nianus. 



The following is the copy of a label which was attached to it: "No. 171. This home 

 grew in the frontlet of a DOE in New England in America, 1607-" 



Mus. Brit. 



3574. The skull and antlers of a species of Deer, nearly allied to the Census Virgi- 

 nianm, but smaller. 



From Guiana. 



Purchased. 

 Subgenus Strongyloceros. 



3575. The calvarium and antlers of a Red Deer (Cervus Elaphus). 



Each antler has five snags or branches. 



Hunterian. 



3576. The right antler of a more mature Red Deer (Cervus Elaphus). 



The summit has begun to take on the form which the foresters call the ' crown.' This 

 antler numbers seven snags : it has been naturally shed. 



Hunterian. 



3577. The right antler of a Red Deer (Cervus Elaphus). 



It has no branch between the base and the crown, but developes two long and one short 

 snags from the base, and three branches and two short points from the crown. 



Hunterian. 



3578. The right antler of a Red Deer (Cervus Elaphus). 



It closely resembles No. 35/6, but is somewhat smaller. This was obtained from a bog 

 in Ireland. It had not been shed. 



Presented by the Rt. Hon. the Earl of EnniskUlen. 



