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“SMALL DERR.” 
By W. F. Sincuarr, I.C.8. 
(Read before the Bombay Natural History Society, 13t:. Féruary, 1894.) 
The phrase of my heading is familiar, and briei et 
our notice cards. But of three animals before us to-ziglt, the first is 
an antelope, the second an aberrant deer, and the third yeither, 
lf one of us send out a shikari from Bombay to any jingle within 
our horizon, his report of game will commonly include“ Ibkris.” He 
he first, and 
le(antelope— 
Tetraceros quadricornts, This animal has really, in periectmale speci- 
mens, two pairs of short hollow horns. Nothing else of théort is now 
known above ground. The Giant Stvather:wm of the Indin tertiary 
rocks seems to have had four horns, and to have had a co emporary 
poor relation assigned to the very genus that we are now dd ing with. 
Some American monsters seem to have had even three paitof horns, 
But that sort of thing is out of fashion amongst modern \minants, 
ough to suit 
may mean one or other of two very different animals. 
commonest in the lower and thinner forests, is the four-horne 
which belongs to Mr. Wellis, of the Tanna Jail. His observabns, 
and mine, of that herd will be of some use to us to-night. A ful-g 
buck weighs three stone : a doe in good condition little less. The cdur 
