1870. ] DR. J. MURIE ON THE PANOLIAN DEER. 613 
Attached in a consolidated manner to the left burr is the said 
osseous or broken-off cranial piece, the dimensions of which are 
above an inch deep and 2°3 inches in antero-posterior diameter. In 
the fresh condition the hole left in the skull was indeed a great gap. 
Piet 

Horns of Panolia eldi, showing different stages of the irregularity of growth. 
A, Appearance 31st August, three months after accident. B. Horns sketched 
from the dead body, 1868. The x points to the bifurcated left brow-tyne. 
I sawed out a wedge piece of the bone and horn, and found that the 
line of junction was well defined. A very thin layer of pale-coloured 
plastic substance intervened, sufficiently thick to admit the blade of 
a penknife in the middle, but towards the exterior much reduced ; 
in some places the bone and horn-substance were in perfect co- 
alescence, the pale colour and solidity of the latter giving line of 
demarcation. Neither was diseased ; the surface torn from the skull 
was roughened. 
Without premonitory symptoms of illness, the animal suddenly 
expired on the 13th November, 1868. 
I made careful post-mortem examination of the body, as it was 
believed the cranial injury it had received had something to do with 
