1876.] 



MK V. BROOKE ON CERVL'S MKSOPOTAM ICUS. 



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The accompanying drawings, lettered according to the figures given 

 in my original notice of the species (I. c. pp. 263 & 264, figs. 2 & 3) 

 represent the left horns of four individuals ; and all, with the ex- 

 ception of the largest (fig. 1), have been taken from the animals 



Fig. I. 



Left antler of Cervus mesvpotamicus (remarkably largely developed). 



after death. As compared with the single horn of the adult male (/. c. 

 p. 264, fig. 3.) which formed the basis of my description of the fully 

 grown horns of the species, the horns at present under consideration 

 offer no very essential points of contrast, the characters presented bv 

 the new specimens in noway tending to render the anomalous form of 

 horn described by me as characteristic of the species, less decided. 

 There are, however, certain not entirely unimportant details in which 

 the new specimens (consisting of single horns of six distinct males, in- 



