120 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



men, Baron Cuvier's judgment would decide it a species, 

 from the circumstance alone of the superior antler being 

 anterior and external : but the drawings of this animal, 

 executed by Indian artists, which we have seen, shew no 

 characteristic difference in the horns, though in other 

 respects they resemble Pennant's figure, and therefore 

 our doubts still remain. In these drawings the horns are 

 very slender, about a foot long, very distant at the base. 

 They are parallel with the face, slightly bent, with a small 

 process at the anterior side of the beam, and a very di- 

 minutive bifurcation turned inwards at the summit. The 

 head is oval, the muzzle small, measuring altogether about 

 eight inches in length; the ears short, round, naked, and 

 rose-coloured inside, with a few white hairs at the orifice ; 

 the body from nose to tail is above three feet long ; the 

 shoulders more than two feet from the ground, and the 

 croup something higher ; the neck, back, shoulders, flanks, 

 and croup* are fulvous-brown ; the face, and a ring sur- 

 rounding a buff-coloured border round the eyes, are pale 

 gray ; the cheeks fawn colour; under jaw and throat white ; 

 the tail rather long, is brown above and white beneath ; 

 the body is thick and clumsy, but the legs fair and slender, 

 of a buff colour, with some white on the inner side of the 

 thighs and fore arm *. The animal is rare. 



Dwarf Axis? (Cervus Pumilio ? Nob.) A fragment of a 

 frontal, not above three inches broad across the horns, pre- 

 served in the Royal College of Surgeons, London, may be a 

 very diminutive species of this group. The pedicles are 

 low, supporting a pair of whitish miniature antlers, with a 

 slightly-pearled burr at base, above which rises a smooth 

 vertical process, little more than an inch high. On the 

 right horn this commences near the base, on the left three- 

 fourths of an inch above it ; the beam recedes slightly, and 



* Measured from a skin without horns. 



