1869.] CERVINE ANIMALS OF HAINAN. 6; 
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7 
Fig. 2. 
4 
Cervus eldi. (Fifth year.) 
Fig. 3. 
Cervus eldi. 
at base of brow-antler; the postlateral snag fully developed, with 
two diminutive tines together in rear of it. The point is greatly 
flattened and forked on giving off a snag from above with a pimple- 
like tine lower on the same surface. In the larger of the old horns 
the snag at the base of the brow-antler is diminutive ; the postlateral 
snag small, the point somewhat flattened, with two small tines on 
its upper edge, near the postlateral, and a larger tine higher up, 
making a fork with the tip. I exhibit two somewhat similar horns 
(fig. 3, a, 6), perhaps of animals still more aged. 
I conclude that the typical horn is free from all snags except the 
postlateral, which itself is of uncertain growth. 
A pair of antlers in the British Museum tally with my five- 
year old; but most of the horns there are large and of more adult 
