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animal in question is only a large variety of the common 

 might be maintained, notwithstanding several minor indi- 

 cations of diversity of species. 



But we found in the Museum of Prague, in Bohemia, 

 a remarkable pair of horns, presented to that establish- 

 ment, as we were informed, by a Polish nobleman, who 

 brought them from Russia, and said that they were of the 

 Roebuck of Tartary. We observed another pair perfectly 

 similar in the Museum of Frankfort, where they were 

 considered as belonging to a roebuck. These came out of 

 the collection of deer's horns of some nobleman in the 

 vicinity without indication. It was, however, admitted, 

 that no frontal much inferior to the Stag's could afford 

 room for their burrs, and, therefore, that the Roebuck was 

 too small for them. These two pair shewed the base of 

 the horn subvertical, reclining backwards and outwards, 

 very rugous, tuberculated, and pearled, some rising nearly 

 an inch high. The anterior antler commences where the 

 beam curves back ; it is vertical with several processes 

 beneath. The beam then bends outwards, and terminates 

 into a bifurcation, the anterior being dichotomous, and 

 the posterior turning horizontally inwards, so as nearly 

 to meet its fellow from the opposite horn, the termination 

 being forked also. They were of a deep-brown colour, and 

 measured between thirteen and fourteen inches from burr 

 to tip. The diameter across the base of both horns and 

 the frontal about five inches. 



These specimens established the existence in northern 

 Asia of a species of buck superior to the Roe of Europe, 

 and even to the Fallow-deer, and which cannot be referred 

 to any known species excepting the Pygargus of Pallas, 

 whose figure in that case must represent the Buck of at 

 most the fourth year. In turning over a series of Indian 

 drawings of plants, insects, and animals, in a printseller's 

 shop, we found a representation of the animal, which we 



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