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assumes the form of a flattened spike about two inches 

 high, ending in a point ; between the process at the base 

 and the beam, the horn is compressed as if hollowed out ; 

 the animal to which this fragment belonged, cannot have 

 exceeded the smallest antelopes by more than an inch or 

 two. If this should be a species, we would name it Dwarf 

 Axis, Cervus Pumilio. 



The Capreoline Group. 



The horns of the Capreoline group, in general, are a 

 diminutive representation of those borne by the Rusas of 

 the Mariannas and Moluccas ; but the animals are shorter 

 and more elevated on the legs, they are destitute of tail, 

 and have no lachrymary sinus. In general, the horns de- 

 veloping, as in the rest of the genus, from a first pricket to 

 a second, with antlers, and these in their turn enlarging 

 with age. The complete form, however, consists in having 

 only two antlers, or rather processes, the inferior forwards, 

 and the superior to the rear, which, with the point, make 

 three ; but occasionally tubercles swell into processes, and 

 then they seem to have four or more. Indeed, the Roebuck 

 group is more subject to diversity of horn than any other 

 deer, the Rein excepted, probably from their residing much 

 in underwood, which being apt to inflict wounds while 

 the horn is tender, produces diseased and monstrous for- 

 mations. There is in the Museum of Berlin, a specimen 

 whose horns are without lower antlers, but the summits 

 are flattened with four processes on the one, and seven on 

 the other horn, yet so regular, that, taken by themselves, 

 they would appear as belonging to an unknown species. 

 There are, besides, others diseased, where all the processes 

 are uncinated, and we have seen one in which the pair 

 united into a globular mass, nearly as large as the head. 

 The Roebuck group belongs exclusively to the Old World, 

 Vor>. IV. K 



