188 THE TOWER MENAGERIE. 
breast, and light fawn, intermixed with dirty white, on 
the inside of the limbs. His eyes are surrounded by 
a fawn-coloured disc, and patches of the same colour 
occupy the fore knees, and a space above each of the 
hoofs in front. His nose, which is black, is enveloped 
in an extensive muzzle; his ears are nearly naked on 
the inside, and marked by a patch of dirty white at the 
base externally; and his mane, which spreads down- 
wards over the neck and throat, is remarkably thick and 
heavy. His tail is black above, and light fawn beneath ; 
and a disc of the latter colour occupies the posterior part 
of the buttocks, having on each side a blackish line 
which separates it from the lighter tinge of the inside of 
the thighs. His horns, when properly grown, consist of 
a broad burr, from which the pointed basal antler rises 
almost perpendicularly to the extent of nine or ten inches; 
of a stem, which is first directed outwards, and then 
forms a bold curve inwards; and of a snag, or second 
antler of smaller size, arising from the stem near its 
extremity on the posterior and internal side, and forming 
with it a terminal fork, the branch however being shorter 
than the stem, and not exceeding five or six inches in 
length. The entire length of the horns is about two 
feet; they are of a dark colour, very strong, and deeply 
furrowed throughout. 
The foregoing description of the horns, it should be 
observed, is taken from those of the year before last, 
which were of the genuine or normal form. Those of 
the last year, which are represented in the cut prefixed, 
were from some cause or other remarkably different, that 
of the right side especially exhibiting a singular mon- 
strosity in the production of additional branches of 
