614 DR. J. MURIE ON THE PANOLIAN DEER. [June 23, 
the animal’s death; this, however, did not turn out to be the case. 
The morbid appearances were shortly as follows :—Intense congestion 
and thinning of the walls of the small intestines, these containing a 
great amount of flatus. Great intestines perfectly healthy, and loaded 
with normal feces. All the other abdominal and the thoracic viscera 
were quite sound. The brain and the parts around the left horn- 
base, after careful scrutiny, yielded no appearances of disease or 
lesion. I considered death to have resulted from acute enteritis. 
The woodcut (fig. 1 B) represents the renewed antlers at the time 
of death, the animal then being probably over three years old. The 
right horn agrees pretty nearly with Blyth’s figure (No. 15). The 
left has a more erect beam, and with ‘only rudiments of terminal 
snags ; the brow-tyne is represented by two subequal snags. There 
is no distinct burr, this horn rising with a large base eine to the 
skull. Length of right beam 263, and of left 21 inches. Right 
brow-tyne 123 long. Inner snag of left brow-antler 63 inches, tip 
inwardly curved ; outer snag 57 inches, and with a slight outward 
sweep. 
Remarks.—It appears to me a few legitimate deductions may be 
drawn from the case I have just related. 
1. It proves that the pedicel of a Deer’s horns and portion of the 
cranial bones when torn away at the period of shedding are not only 
repaired by a fresh irregular osseous mass, but redevelope thereupon 
anew horn. From the experience of others, I understand it would 
be doubtful, if horns were in an active growing state and such an 
accident were to happen, whether they would be renewed again. 
2. But a minimum of blood was lost—showing that not only the 
vessels to the horn itself but also those of the forehead must have 
been in a contracted condition ; else greater hemorrhage would have 
resulted. 
3. That in this Panolian Deer the horn of succession was mal- 
formed, the deviation consisting in an extra development of snag and 
diteritiod in direction—this abnormality, when uniform on both 
sides, (within certain limits) being considered by some naturalists of 
specific value. By such a character and nodulation of the superficies 
Dr. Gray separates his Panolia platyceros from his P. acuticornis 
=P, eldi. 
4. That variation of the reproduced horn was probably coordinate 
with, or in fact due to, fissive growth of the blood-vessels. Hence 
it follows that a slightly altered blood supply produces corneous 
variability, this by inheritance producing the so-called varieties and 
ultimate species—7. e. where animals are specifically subdivided by 
form of horns, as notoriously is the case among Deer. 
5. This multiple reproduction of hornlets is possibly correlated 
with similar multifission of the tail of Batrachians and Fishes, which, 
as experiment has often shown, produce a double tail on the caudal 
appendage being severed. 
