1897.] 



ON THE HEAD AWD HORNS OF A FALLOW DEER, 



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interesting one, and was not well represented in the National 

 Collection o£ Birds. 



Macronyx croceus (Vieill.). 

 Pholidauges verreauxi, Socage. 

 CorvuUur alhicollis (Lath.). 

 Corvus scapulatus, Dana. 

 Merops persicus. Pall. 

 Lophocerus melanoleucus (Licht.). 

 Gallirex cliloroclilamys, Shelley. 

 Gentropus natalensis, Shelley. 

 Strix jiamniea, Linn. 

 Milvus (tgyptius (Grm.). 

 Nisaetiis hellicosus (Daud.). 

 Polyhoroides typicus, Smith. 

 Hagedashia hagedasch (Lath.). 

 fferodias lucida, Eaf. 

 alba (Linn.). 



Ardea ardesiaca, Wagl. 



melanocephala, Vig. et 



Childr. 

 Mycteria senegalensis, Shaw. 

 Anastomus lamelUgeras, Teinm. 

 Tantalus ibis, Linn. 

 Phalacrocorax africanus (Grm.), 

 Phcenicopterus roseus, Pall. 

 Plecti'opterus niger, Sd. 

 Pternistes nudicolUs (Bodd.). 

 Otis melaHogaster, Riipp. 

 Totanus nebularius (Gunner). 

 Numenius aixuiatus (Linn.). 



pTicBopus (Linn.). 



Himantopus Candidas (Bona.). 



Mr. R. E. Holding exhibited (on behalf of Sir Douglas Brooke, 



Horns of Fallow Deer, showing malformations. 



A, shed horn, bringing away only a small portion of the outer table of the skull. 

 B, horn shed in the succeeding year, bringing away a much larger portion 

 owing to exostosis at the point of fracture. In the disease has enveloped 

 the entire frontal bone, causing thickening of the horn-base and other 

 malformations. 



