494 ON TAEIATION IN THE ANTLERS OE THE EALLOAV DEER. [June 19, 



with a separate burr' ; but it must be remembered that, so far, I 

 ha\e only been able to handle a few specimens, and there is 

 room for surpi-ise that on these few such continuity should be 

 shown. 



The remaining specimens of this British Museum series are not 

 of immediate interest, but are recorded here for the sake of com- 

 pleteness. 



14. Heavy antlers, broken across below the tray-tyne, apparently after full 

 growth but before burnishing. A tyne had grown outwards from one 

 of them at the fractured surface-. 



44. A single antler of the character of R. C. S. specimen 1567 (fig. 8), 

 with a slight brow-tyne, and a bifurcating tyne a little above this. 



45. A similar specimen to 44, but with only a brow-tyne. 



4(3. A single antler of stunted growth, with a brow and three points. 



In conclusion, I have but to express my thanks to Sir William 

 Flower, Prof. I harles Stewart, and Mr. Oldfield Thomas, for the 

 facilities granted to me in the examination of specimens, and to 

 Mr. J. E. Harting for help with the literature of the subject ; and 

 my hopes that the incomplete character of these notes may induce 

 Fellows of the Society, who own a herd of Fallow Deer or have 

 influence \dth their owners, to arrange a series of systematic 

 observations on the abnormalities of antlers. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXXIV. 



Fig. 1. E. C. S. Osteol. Cat., 1556. 



2. E. C. S. O.steol. Cat., 1.561 : right antler from outer side. 



3. E. C. S. Osteol. Cat., 1565 : right antler from outer side. 



4. E. C. S. Osteol. Cat., 1562 : left antler from inner side. 



5. E. C. S. Osteol. Cat., 1564 : right antler Irom outer side. 



6. E. C. S. Osteol. Cat., 1.557 : left antler from inner side. 



7. E. C. S. Osteol. Cat., 1567 : right antler from outer side. 



8. E. C. S. Osteol. Cat., 1567 : left antler from inner side. 



9. Specimen in the possession of J. A. Wallace, Esq. : left antler 



from outer side. 



' It is of course possible to regard the small tyne of B. M. specimen 20 as a 

 separate beam with its own burr, but its direction and position with regard to 

 the other tyne distinctly indicate that it is really a separate brow-tyne, and not 

 an instance of reduplication. Of this reduphcation, however, an example is 

 afforded by specimen 382 of the Eoy. Coll. Surg. Teratological Series. This 

 is a calvarium of the Axis Deer, with brow-tyne and a broken beam on the 

 R. side : on the L. side the usual process of the frontal bone (1) carries 

 a burr, from which spring a brow-tyne (8 in. from burr to tip ; only 1 in. 

 shorter than that of the other side) and three little tynes about l-g in. in the 

 clear ; one of these bil'urcates slightly, and tliey surround the spot from which 

 the beam should spring ; (2) below this burr it grows outwards and down- 

 wards, at an angle to thehorizon of about 45°, and carries another burr, a thick 

 brow-tyne, and beam of 6 in. in length. Here, thereibre, are two distinct 

 antlers, carried on difl'eront points of an elongated and bent process of the 

 frontal bone. The first one is in the usual jiosition with respect to the head; 

 the second lies parallel to the long axis of the head, with tjne and beam in 

 the same line, and therefore, as regards the curvature of the brow-tyne, is not 

 an optical reflection of even a noi'uial antler. 



- Collyns {op. cit.) records tliat from the stump of the sawn-oif antler of a 

 Eed Deer a dag was put up after four years. 



