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developed. There is a small vertical snag in front, which diverges slightly from the beam : 

 this is compressed or flattened laterally, and terminates in a point. The length of the horns, 

 measured from the burr, is unequal, the right being two inches and three-quarters, and the 

 left, three mches and a half. 



Hunterian. 



3597. One of the antlers of a Manilla Deer (Cervus canaliculatus). 



The external surface is unusually deeply channelled and rugous. The first snag diverges 

 at an acute angle from the beam, three inches above the burr. The beam sends off a short 

 and small snag from its back part, before it tapers to an obtuse point. 



From Manilla. 



Presented by Hugh Cuming, Esq., F.Z.S. 



Subgenus Capreolus. 



3598. The skeleton of a male Roe-deer (Cervus capreolus). 



The vertebral formula is : 7 cervical, 1 3 dorsal, 6 lumbar, 4 sacral : the caudal series is 

 incomplete. 



Mm. Brookes. 



3599. An incomplete skeleton of a Roe-deer (Cervus capreolus). Hunterian. 



3600. The antlers of a young Roe-deer (Cervus capreolus). Hunterian. 



3601. The antlers of a young Roe-deer (Cervus capreolus). Hunterian. 



3602. The antlers of a young Roe-deer (Cervus capreolus). Hunterian. 



3603. The antlers, somewhat malformed, of a Roe-deer (Cervus capreolus). 



Mus. Brit. 



3604. An antler of a Roe-deer (Cervus capreolus). Mus. Brit. 



3605. An antler of a variety of the Roe-deer, called the Tail-less or Tartarian Roe 

 (Cervus capreolus ; Cervus pygargm, Pallas). 



