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the shoulders, appear to justify its being considered as a 

 distinct species, approaching by some of its characters to 

 the Spotted Axis. We have applied M. Schreber's epithet, 

 unicolor, because that author's indication will suit this 

 better than others, he being decidedly the largest to which 

 it is fully applicable. 



In the collection of the British Museum are some horns 

 with the second antler to the front, but of much smaller 

 dimensions than the former. One, the skull of which is 

 nearly complete, is remarkable for the convexity of the 

 frontal between the horns, which rise near each other im- 

 mediately from the skull without pedicle. The head 

 measures, from between the horns to the extremity of the 

 upper maxillary bones, about ten inches. The horns are 

 somewhat parallel, the lower antler rising from the burr 

 outwards and vertical : half way up the beam is the second 

 also outwards, and obliquely to the front ; they are very 

 robust and pearled, measuring nearly two feet in length. 



The next are still fixed to the facial part of the head, 

 with the hair on, of a deep sepia-dun colour, very close 

 and hard; the suborbital slit not determinable, but the 

 muzzle broad and black ; the horns placed on a low pedi- 

 cle, diverge in the shape of a V ; the lower antlers, com- 

 mencing at about two inches up the beam, are placed on 

 the anterior external side, pointing obliquely upwards and 

 outwards. The second, near the summit of the beam, is 

 short, and turns to the front and inwards : the whole length 

 of the horn is twenty inches, and the distances from tip to 

 tip about the same. This fragment was presented by 

 Zedekiah Clark, Esq. ; both are, doubtless, from the East 

 Indies. 



The Pennantian Hog-deer should be placed here, if there 

 was not some doubt respecting the exactitude of the di- 

 rection of the second antler. Baron Cuvier views it as a 



