92 MR. GULLIVER ON THE BLOOD-CORPUSCLES. [Feb. 10, 
instance I could get of a pregnant specimen having been examined. 
The large number of immature animals usually seen in a herd of 
them seems to show that they have some means of reproducing not 
common to other Deer. 
On my cruise up the river Yangtsze with Admiral Sir Henry 
Keppel last year in H.M.S. ‘Salamis,’ we called at Chinkiang, and, 
taking on board some of the residents at that port, steamed a few 
miles further up, and landed at Deer Island for a little shooting. A 
goodly party of officers and others were with us, and the Deer were 
well disturbed that day ; no bullets were allowed, for fear of accidents, 
and only fowling-pieces used with large shot. A large patch of 
rushes still stood, and there were plenty of Deer ; but only ezght were 
brought back to the ship, though doubtless many more were injured. 
They crouch in the reeds and long grass, admitting pretty close ap- 
proach, and then, rising with a bound, spring away. ‘They were 
generally put up singly or in twos and threes. In running they cock 
their ears, round their fore legs, bend up their hind legs, hog their 
rumps, and scurry away with little quick leaps, very much after the 
manner of a Hare. The heavy shot soon bowled them over. When 
they ran across the cultivated fields, the Chinese shouted after them 
and set their barking curs to pursue them. _ 
The Chinese at Shanghai call this animal the Ke; but at Chinkiang 
they are named Chang—the classical term for the Muntjac (Cervulus 
reevesi). The Chinese dictionary compiled under authority of the 
Emperor Kanghe describes the Ke as “ Stag-like, with feet resem- 
bling those of a Dog, has a long tusk on each side of the mouth, and 
is fond of fighting.” 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 
Puate VI. 
Hydropotes inermis. 
Puate VII. 
Fig. 1. Skull of male Hydropotes inermis. 
2. Skull of female Hydropotes inermis. 
2. On the Size of the Red Corpuscles of the Blood of Mos- 
chus, Tragulus, Orycteropus, Ailurus, and some other 
Mammalia, with Historical Notices. By Grorce Gut- 
LIVER, F.R.S. 
Measurements, Scale, and Woodcut.—The present, like all my 
former measurements, are given in vulgar fractions of an English 
inch. Of the scale to the woodcut each division of one-fifth of an 
inch is equivalent to one four-thousandth of an inch micrometrical 
or linear admeasurement, being the same scale as that to which the 
figures are engraved in the reports cf my lectures, in the ‘ Medical 
