106 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



are the male or Stag, figured from the life in M. F. Cuvier's 

 Mam. Lithog., and which we sketched afterwards in the 

 museum ; and a male and female from Java likewise in the 

 Museum of Paris. The distinctive character of the species 

 appears to be trifurcated horns ; the basal antler immedi- 

 ately upon the burr, pointing outwards and obliquely for- 

 wards ; the beam at first reclining and then rising outwards 

 and upwards, throwing off, about midway on the anterior 

 external side, a considerable snag, which turns up and forms 

 the terminal bifurcation. These horns are very robust and 

 shew the similarity which exists in those now in the British 

 Museum, quoted by the Baron from our drawing sent him 

 by Dr. Leach : these, however, are monstrous, the brow 

 antlers and one of the forks not being developed, and the 

 terminal point turning forwards ; they served Mr. Pennant 

 to constitute his species of the Great Axis, and measure two 

 feet four inches in a line, and three feet along the curve. 



M. F. Cuvier expresses doubts whether the indivi- 

 dual here noticed came from Bengal, and we are much in- 

 clined to believe that the Indian Archipelago was its 

 native country, because the large species of stags of con- 

 tinental India reside above the Ghauts, and far to the 

 northward and eastward ; they are, therefore, rarely brought 

 to the coasts, excepting as presents to the governors or 

 men of consequence. In the Indian Archipelago they are 

 near the coast, and more easily forwarded in a living state ; 

 but however this may be, the specimen was in size some- 

 what less than the European Stag. The hair coarse and hard ; 

 from the first years that of the neck, cheeks, and throat, 

 was longer and more shaggy, forming a kind of beard, and 

 even a mane, which he could erect like a wild boar ; his 

 winter coat was gray-brown in different shades on the 

 neck, back, and thighs, without disk on the buttocks. In 

 summer he was of a more fulvous-brown ; the belly, lower 

 limbs, and inside of the thighs, whitish buff, as also the 



