]04 PHILOSOPHICAL TKANSACTIONS. [aNNO 173(5. 



That which Mr. Dale takes for the undescribed deer, is of the stag-kind 

 having round horns like them, not spreading out as in the stag or red deer, but 

 meeting nearer together at their tips, and bending forwards over the face of the 

 animal ; the brow-antlers are not crooked, standing forwards, but straight and 

 upright, as represented fig. 8, the dimensions of which are as follow : 

 ab 1 1 inches, acb 20, ad 12-i-, df 12^, de 11, gh 24. 



The skin of this deer is of a sand colour, with some black hairs intermixed, 

 and while young spotted all over with white spots, like some sorts of fallow 

 deer ; being likewise about their size when full grown. The Dama Virginiana 

 Raii Synop. Animal, Quadruped, p. 86, which was formerly in St. James's-Park, 

 seems to be different from this ; if Mr. Willoughby was not led into a mistake 

 in taking it to be of the palmate kind, by only seeing it when the horns were 

 shed : perhaps this last of Mr. Ray may be the maurouse of Josselyn's Voyages, 

 p. 91, which he says is like the moose, only his horns are but small, and the 

 creature about the size of a stag ; but his description is too short to be satis- 

 factory. 



There are other kinds of deer mentioned by Mr. Josselyn in his book, p. 87, 

 as natives of that country ; as the buck, stag, and rein-deer : but whether they 

 are the same with those called by the same names in Europe, Mr. Dale cannot 

 determine ; their descriptions being omitted. Mr. Josselyn also mentions, as 

 another kind of American deer, an animal called a maccari, caribbo, or pohana: 

 but by the account he gives, it seems to be a fiction ; no such animal being, 

 Mr. Dale thinks, in rerum natura. 



Mr. Ray, in his Synop. Quad. p. 215, rather refers the sciurus Americanus 

 volansto the mouse, than to the squirrel kind,* because their tails are broad and 

 plain, and not turned over their backs when they sit; which mistake may pro- 

 bably arise from only seeing the skin of a dead one, when the hair of their tails 

 had been eaten off by mites : for, in one Mr. Dale saw alive, which was brought 

 from Virginia, the tail was hairy, as in others of the squirrel kind, though 

 rather thinner ; and it turned over the back as in other squirrels. 



Dr. Mortimer observes, that the $ame species of flying squirrel has been 

 found in Poland ; a description of which, with an accurate figure, is given by 

 M. Klein, Phil. Trans. N° 427. 



And that as to the large horns found fossil in Ireland ; he has taken parti- 

 cular notice, in several he saw, besides the main horns being palmated, that the 

 brow-antlers are so likewise ; a circumstance peculiar to the rein-deer species, 



• The Atnerican flying squirrel is of a pale rufous-brown colour, white beneath, and is the mvt 

 volans, Linn. The Polish or European flying squirrel is a different species, larger, of a grey colour, 

 white beneath, and is the sciurus volans, Linn. 



