612 DR. J. MURIE ON THE PANOLIAN DEER. [June 23, 
intendent. He stated that on his opening the door of the inner stall 
to clean away refuse, the Deer passed quietly out minus its right 
horn, and that accidentally it tapped its left horn against the door- 
post, which horn thereupon tumbled off, bone and all, as I now 
exhibit it. Little or no blood was lost, as I have already mentioned ; 
a slight clot formed, but no serious gush of blood took place. 
29th May. Animal apparently going on well; no bad symptoms. 
End of June. Daily I had locked at the creature, and things 
progressed favourably. At this date the right horn had grown as a 
good knobby projection. The vacuity in the skull bad filled up; 
and indications of the probability of a left horn being developed were 
apparent, but not very decided. 
During July the beam of the right horn had increased consider- 
ably; and ere the month had passed the brow-tyne began to shoot for- 
ward. By the middle of the month no doubt existed of a horn coming 
forth on the left side; the bony deficiency was complete; and 
from the large tuberous mass and velvet covering, a young horn was 
distinct. Pedicel and a burr were deficient, the horn springing in an 
indefinite manner from the osseous prominence. The end of July 
saw a fair-sized horn. 
In August considerable growth of both horns took place; the 
right was higher and far in advance of the left, which was both lower 
set and irregular as to its division. On August 31st, or three months 
after the accident, the two horns presented the appearance indicated in 
the sketch (4); viz. the right horn had a considerable-sized back- 
wardly produced tyne, and an equally well-formed up-curved single 
brow-tyne. The tyne of the left horn was shorter than the right 
one, and rather expanded terminally ; the brow-tyne was bifid, not 
single, the snags each shorter and straighter than on the right side, 
and with a horizontal direction. 
On the 14th September I noted ‘‘ that since last date the growth 
of both horns had gone on steadily, the left making good headway.” 
A week after this I made a memorandum that the malformation of the 
left brow-tyne was becoming more and more marked, by the snags 
being relatively shorter than on the right side ; but the difference of 
size of left and right beams was less, though they were still unequal. 
An oily-looking perspiration exuded from both horns. 
As winter and spring went on the horns attained each a good 
size, the malformation of the left, as above described, remaining a 
notable feature. 
The horns thrown off on the above date (28th May, 1868), which 
I now exhibit, were very much alike, but not quite identical in pat- 
tern. They approach Blyth’s figure No. 16 (P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 840), 
his Pegu and Munipur variety. There are two short terminal bifid 
snags, however, on the beam of the right; and what usually is a 
vertical snag rising from the root of the beam in the left horn, in 
our specimen comes to the inner side and partially from the root of 
the brow-tyne. The divisional measurements give 143 inches of 
length in the beams, 63 inches for the brow-tynes, right basal snag 
1 inch, and left basal snag 23 inches. 
