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ever, soon after its origin, the blade widens as it ascends, 

 until it terminates into a broad, compressed, leaf-like, ob- 

 tuse, deflected, striated, and pearled process turned in- 

 wards ; the posterior part from this bifurcation assuming 

 a round, taper, and regularly-uncinated form, larger, more 

 turned inwards and pointed than in the preceding. Upon 

 and near the ridge which unites the leaf-like part to the 

 after horn, there are on each side one or two small knobs 

 or buttons of horn, above one-third of an inch high, re- 

 sembling incipient ramification. 



By the expedition to Baffin's Bay the native region of 

 this animal is determined, and the probability of its being 

 a second species increased. In a head, several horns, and a 

 mutilated skin, which we have seen, the differences be- 

 tween this and the former appears to be in the constancy 

 of the elongated lozenge <CTIIII> which the section of 

 the horns presents, whereas a similar section of those of 

 Furcifer shews a compressed oval o in the width and 

 early commencement of the leaf-like process, its internal 

 direction and the rudiments of others, in the posterior 

 curve being much larger and more turned inwards, the 

 horn being also more voluminous in proportion to the ani- 

 mal, which, however, is described as very like Furcifer, 

 but lower and more robust about the limbs. The head 

 which we saw was shorter, wider across the orbits, and the 

 nose almost straight. The fur appeared more soft and 

 woolly, with a mixture of hoary hair, little or no white 

 about the face or lips, but more on the breast and belly: 

 thus approaching by the characters of the horns to the 

 paucos parvosque ac teretes ramos, and the Pilo cano the 

 designations of Hernandes, who, perhaps, described the 

 winter dress*. 



* The skin which we saw and the head were probably in the 

 summer habit from the period of time when the specimens were 

 obtained: the winter dress is doubtless more hoary. We are 



