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within; the neck, back, flanks and hams, brown ; the legs 

 ochery, and the tail rather long and dark ; a small space of 

 the breast between the fore-legs white, but the attitude does 

 not shew whether a white disk exists on the buttocks : the 

 figure appears light and active. Whether the horn figured 

 by Baron Cuvier, Plate v. No. 35, vol. iv. of Ossemens 

 Fossiles, can be considered as an ill-grown specimen of this 

 species we shall not determine, nor venture to assert that 

 this is the Mule-deer of Le Raye, or of Lewis and Clark. 

 Should these indications be deemed sufficient to establish a 

 species, we would submit the trivial name of Occidentals *. 

 The Nepaul Stag. (Cervus Wallichii.) This species 

 shews a nearer affinity with the true Stag, than the other 

 animals of the succeeding group, by having, instead of only 

 one basal or brow antler, two small ones at the base of 

 each horn pointing forwards ; the beam then rises in an 

 undulating form, slightly bent back, and terminates in a 

 point, having on the anterior face, at two-thirds of its 

 length, a small snag or bifurcation. The only specimen 

 known was brought by Dr. Wallich from Nepaul to Cal- 

 cutta, and there figured by a native artist from the life, in 

 the Menagerie of the Governor-general at Barrackpore : the 

 late Mr. Duvausel transmitted the drawing to the Baron, 

 and it has since been published by Mr. F. Cuvier. The ani- 



* Le Raye's Stag, according to a MS. Journal, is described by 

 him, " as smaller and darker than the Red Deer having large 

 branched horns, the ears very large ; the tail about five inches long, 

 with short dark hair and a tuft of long black hair at the end ; the 

 inside of the limbs, belly, and mouth white." In this case the 

 species would be found in the country of the Sioux ; this descrip- 

 tion cannot well apply either to C. Macrourus or C. Macrotis; by 

 Red Deer I presume he means C. Virginianus, because in speaking 

 of the long-tailed Deer, he represents it as larger than the Red 

 Deer, which if he meant the Wapiti, would make this an immense 

 animal. 



