deer's horn. 437 



never to be dislodged now they are numerously 

 established in fastnesses so peculiarly difficult, and so 

 congenial to their habits and instincts." 



The antler in question at length came, through the 

 kind offices of my friend, into my possession ; but 

 the result of a careful examination of published de- 

 scriptions, and a rigid collation of the specimen with 

 the extensive collection of Deer's horns in the British 

 Museum, proved indubitably that it had belonged to 

 no native American form of Cervidce, but to our own 

 familiar Fallow-deer {Dama vulgaris). Of course I 

 immediately communicated to my esteemed coadjutor 

 this unexpected conclusion, and I annex his note in 

 reply. 



"i)ec24, 1850. — I am quite satisfied you have 

 got the right clue to Sir Charles Price's escaped 

 Cerfs in the mountains of St. Catherine's. The 

 information without doubt is quite correct that he 

 got specimens of the Mexican Deer ; — but, as he 

 introduced at once a park, that is, about 8 or 10 

 pair, it is evident he drew his colony from Europe. 

 The Mexican Deer he could scarcely obtain more 

 numerously than buck and doe, — for the Indians 

 have never so far advanced in the habits of a pastoral 

 people as to herd their native animals. The Guazuti 

 are very frequently brought to this island. A pair 

 belonging to the 2nd W. Ind. Regiment have been 

 for the last two years inhabitants of the barrack- 

 yard in this town. They are frolicksome and mis- 

 chievous ; — their tint a dun-ash ; — their ears large • 

 their hair coarse and wavy ; their body long and full- 

 barrelled, so that the shape does not give one an 



