1905.] ox A HORSE BEARING HORN-LIKE STRUCTURES. 323 



almost entirely white, and its dimensions, taken in the flesh, are 

 as follows : — 



Head and body 341 mm., tail 65, hind foot 82, ear 70 ; weight 

 2 lbs. foz. The skull's greatest length 75 mm., basal length 57'5. 



It seems curious that this Rabbit does not occur on the main- 

 land of Crete, and I have found no record of its having done so 

 formerly. Raulin wrote* of it as being very plentiful in the 

 small islands off the coast, and a man who brought me three from 

 Dhia, off Oandia, said that it is still found there in considerable 

 numbers. 



16. Capra ^gagrus cretensis Lorenz-Liburnau t. 



The Cretan Wild Goat has been known fi'om very early times, 

 and has doubtless acquired an added interest on account of the 

 legend of Zeus' upbringing on Mount Ida by the goat Amalthea. 

 It is still found in the three main mountain masses of the island — 

 the Aspro Vouno, Mount Ida, and the Lassethe Mountains. One 

 skin, that of a c? , was forwarded to me in the spring of the 

 present year (1905), it having been obtained during the winter 

 in the Sphakia district. The horns indicate an animal of eight 

 years old, and measure 605 mm. along the front curve, while the 

 circumference at the base is 175 mm. The greatest length of 

 horn given by Dr. Lorenz-Liburnau J for this subspecies is 81 cm. 

 (810 mm.), this being in a seven-year old specimen preserved in 

 the Vienna Museum. 



November 28, 1905. 

 Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S., Yice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. J. T. Cunningham, M.A., F.Z.S., exhibited some photo- 

 graphs of a Horse bearing structures that he interpreted as 

 incipient horns, and made the following remarks : — 



The peculiarity of the horse represented in these photographs 

 was described by Dr. G. W. Eustace, of Arundel, before the 

 Linnean Society in 1903. The horse, the name of which is 

 " Domain," was then in the stables of Mr. Alfred Day at ' The 

 Hermitage' near Arundel, and was still there when, by the 

 kindness of Mr. Day, these photographs were taken for me in 

 October last. A few other similar cases have been recorded, but 

 the pedigree of Domain contains no individuals which are known 

 to have possessed the peculiarity, and it appears therefore to be 

 a new variation, not a result of revei'sion or heiedity. 



Dr. Eustace's paper was illustrated by plaster casts of the fore- 

 head of Domain which are now in the Natural History Museum, 

 and Dr. Ridewood has presented to the Museum the frontal 



* Op. cit. vol. i. p. 253. 



t ' Die Wildziejjen dev Griecliisclien Inseln &c.' 1889. 



X Op. cit. p. 24. 



