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“ Antorbital vacuities much wider, 
as a rule 28 mm. or mote’—the 
length (in hinds and young stags) 
58-63 mm. (p. 7). 
Orbital roof “ more solid,” “ pierced 
by several foramina, none of which 
even attains half the size as that of 
the Norwegian deer” (p. 8). 
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Antorbital vacuities much nar- 
rower, as a rule 19 mm. or less (21 
mm. in one large specimen), the 
length (in hinds and young stags) 
390-47 mm. (but in the very old speci- 
men 55 mm.). 
Orbital roof “very thin and shows 
one comparatively very large foramen 
with a diameter of more than Io 
mm.,’” sometimes considerably more 
(po 2): 
Several other differences are also noted, but the above are the 
principal ones. 
Lonnberg’s material consisted of five Swedish hinds and young 
stags and seven Norwegian hinds and young stags (p. 8) as well 
as one “ very old and big stag’ from Norway (p. 7). 
In addition to this material he had the skulls of two adult stags 
(with five tines on each antler) from Invernesshire, in northern 
Scotland, which he thinks probably represent another independent 
subspecies “* which suitably may be termed scoticus”’ (p. 11). With 
these he associates a female skull from Ireland in the Dublin Mu- 
seum, though he intimates that there may possibly be important dif- 
ferences between the Irish and Scotch deer (p. 13). However, 
“as far as could be concluded from this single specimen the dimen- 
sions agree pretty well with those of the Scotch deer. Both are 
small-headed and short-nosed, with small antorbital vacuities and 
large foramina supraorbitalia as the Norwegian deer, but otherwise 
not so slender as that race.” In these respects Cervus scoticus 
differs from the typical C. elaphus of southern Sweden. From the 
Norwegian C. atlanticus it differs, as alleged, by the skull being less 
slender. This greater robustness, according to p. Io, is shown in 
the greater width of the skull just behind the premaxillaries, in the 
greater zygomatic width, and in the greater height of the maxillary, 
the Scotch deer in these respects agreeing with the Swedish deer, 
though in the last-mentioned character the Irish specimen is said 
to be partly approaching the Norwegian deer (top of p. 13). The 
main difference from the latter, and consequent agreement with the 
Swedish deer, is found in the Scotch and Irish deer having the 
nasals less flattened and less straight. 
As described by him, the Scotch-Irish deer is intermediate be- 
tween the Norwegian and the Swedish deer. 
The U. S. National Museum has recently acquired in exchange 
with the Zoological Museum in Kristiania (through Professor 
