132 CLASS MAMMALIA, 



Before the publication of the last-mentioned work of the 

 Baron's, in which this transition is depicted, we had made 

 constant researches in museums, and among others in 

 that of the Royal College of Surgeons, the British, the 

 Leverian, Mr. Bullock's, and Mr. Brooks's. In the col- 

 lection of the last-mentioned gentleman we found another 

 pair of a bright golden-yellow colour, very robust, rising 

 from the burr with strong pearls, and a small antler in 

 front : behind this, and in contact with it, a second snag, 

 strong, vertical, notched, and grooved; the beam then 

 bends out at an angle, horizontally and laterally, and 

 then curves forward. On the superior edge, are three bifur- 

 cated snags, two vertical, and the third bent forwards ; at 

 the extremity are two simple, both pointing forwards ; but 

 what seems to confer a decisive character on these horns 

 is, that beneath these, on the inferior edge of the beam, a 

 sixth heavy snag hangs down perpendicularly, widened and 

 flattened at the base, and evidently much worn by fric- 

 tion, while the animal grases : this is the character on the 

 left ; the right is similar, excepting the extreme points 

 which appear to have been injured in the development. In 

 the British Museum, there is another similar pair with 

 the worn clavate suspensal snags, but less in proportion*. 

 These two specimens seemed to justify the appellation of 

 Cervus Clavatus for a new species, but the comparison of 

 several others in the British Museum, evidently of the same 

 character as figures 8, 9, 23, of plate v. before cited, would 

 leave a doubt did any one exhibit the inferior clavate snag. 

 Fig. 16 indeed has something of the kind, but comparing 

 the two figures their resemblance is very remote, though 

 it might possibly be of a young specimen of this supposed 



* The notes of dimensions being mislaid, I cannot give them ex- 

 actly, but the proportions of the drawing offer about two feet to 

 each horn measuring along the curve, and about three feet six 

 inches from tip to tip, in a line to the extremities. 



