466 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS [voL. 48 
dimensions. With regard to the Scotch and Irish specimens more 
specific data are given, though in the case of the two Scotch speci- 
mens I have been obliged to assume that he always gives the meas- 
urements in the same order, so that those mentioned first are to be 
regarded as belonging to the one individual, and those given last 
to the other. From his text I have thus culled all the individual 
dimensions, adding those of our specimen. Whenever the length 
of the facial part of the skull, as expressed by the distance from 
the distal end of the premaxillaries to the orbit (the dimensions 
selected by Lonnberg) is given, I have reduced the others to per- 
centages of it. In the following table the actual measurement is 
given above the fraction line, the percentage below it. 
COMPARATIVE MEASUREMENTS OF NORWEGIAN, SCOTCH AND IRISH DEER 
= ——— ra =a | 
SIS Woe Ml linc : | E 
on ate etsy | 4 i 
tei euls. s.| gl slg fs_/2 
} + See = bp A ares bo| 8 ZG bo] © wp 
195) 2"|( SoS sSicalgal m | eSsi es 
7g | Fin AG 2M) BS) 85) | ae) a 
si] dOlgda Pal Swiss) | | bal ae 
'e) Bo| 82 32) 88) 38) & | 23] sz 
IZ2S/ 25/85 S5)/P%o/%o| © | salso 
ed Re cams = a eel es lea es 
ey Rc esarsise ie | sleet A 
é kas | 
i} r | E> > => aad Fe a 
. . | | 
: 341 |352 1311 |319 |301 | 
Basicranial length.. Adachi. Scar eet eee reeceeteececian 162 T6T 303 310 i359 T6L 161 330 373 
Tip of premaxillaries to orbit.....................|243 [248 183 [Lez ike 
] ] 146 | | 139 }/143 |1385 
Zygomatic Width.......... s2eseeee ceehececesseeerenss (so | eabenie 
Width of skull behind premaxillaries........... | &8 | G1 [38 | 36 
Maxillary height above anterior molar.......... 49 | | gi | 32 | 39 
: : ; 69 60 | 60 | 55 
Maxillary height above anterior premolar...... 33 | $¢ | ao | 33 
Oxsittie posterior MIOlAN: ss .poncedesesp anes neoeeane $6 | | $2 | $2 
The substantial agreement of all the critical dimensions of the 
Norwegian, Scotch and Irish deer selected by Lonnberg is demon- 
strated by the above table. These deer are all equally short-faced, 
as already pointed out by him, but it is so far from the Norwegian 
deer always being the slenderer, that the specimen in our museum 
has decidedly the broader snout, while as to the maxillary height 
two of its dimensions fall inside the maxima and minima of the 
Scotch and Irish specimens, while one even exceeds their maxima. 
Among the less important characters Lonnberg mentions (p. 8) 
the presence in the Norwegian deer seen by him a small foramen 
on the lower jaw below the anterior premolar, which is usually 
absent in the Swedish deer.t It is present only on one side in our 
* Lilljeborg, Sveriges och Norges Ryggradsdjur, 1, Daggdj., 11, 1874, p. 794, 
mentions already the absence of this foramen in the Swedish deer. 
