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80° from the beam with which it forms a broad-ridged or mammillated 

 fork. Beam reclining, slightly curved forwards, divergent, round, 

 bluntly ridged, slender for the size, 5^ inches in girth, divided above 

 the middle into four prongs, viz. a branch thrown off inwards and 

 backwards, bifurcated laterally ; the inner snag very short, the outer 

 three times longer ; the beam then rising some distance, and terminat- 

 ing in a perch ; the processes nearly equal, anterior and posterior ; the 

 anterior smooth, pointed and slender, like the bez antler ; the anterior 

 inciirved, forming the summit of the beam, the posterior nearly erect. 

 There is some slight difference between the horns of the opposite 

 sides. The above description is of the left one ; on the right side, 

 where the subdivision of the branches commences, the beam is flattened, 

 and the offset of the branches approaches palmation. In other respects 

 the horns are alike. A plane on the anterior surface of the terminal 

 prongs would form a curve. 



Length of the head from liase of the horns to tip of the muzzle, 1 ft. 2 in. ; ditto 

 from the occipital ridge to ditto, 1 ft. 8 in. Width from tip to tip of the ears 2 ft. 

 Length of the horns along the curve, 2 ft. 11 in.; ditto, straight line along the 

 chord, 2 ft. 5 in. ; ditto of the intereornual axis, 2 ft. 1^ in. Interval between 

 the horns on the brow, 2^ in. Divergence of the tips, 2 ft. 5 in. Greatest interval 

 between the horns, 2 ft. 8^ in. Length of the brow antler along the cuiTe, 1 ft. 

 4^ in. ; ditto straight from pierch to tip, 1 ft. 2|- in. Offset of ditto from the burr, 

 2^ in. Interval between the points of ditto, 1 ft. 6 in. ; ditto, from ditto to the 

 middle of the beam, 1 ft. 4 in. Length from bu;r to lower terminal fork on the 

 beam, 1 ft. 5 in. ; ditto from the lower to the upper terminal fork, 6^ in. ; ditto of 

 the anterior terminal branch jjrocess, 1 ft. 1 1 in. ; ditto, of the jiosterior ditto, 

 10 in. ; ditto of the outer snag of the lower forkj 6 in. ; ditto of the inner snag 

 ditto, '2^ in. Divergence between the tips of ditto, 1 ft. 3 in. 



I had no means of ascertaining the dimensions of the body, as only 

 the fresh head was sent to me. Mr. Money, C.S., from whom I received 

 it, described the animal as large. He was one of a party of three 

 who shot twenty- one of the deer in one day, large and small. The deer 

 had a long shaggy mane on the neck, and long hair on the throat. The 

 colour of the head was a dusky greyish brown, but taAvny above the 

 nnizzle ; that of the body was described as of a dark brown. It was 

 shot in a jhil on the west bank of the Ganges, south of Hurdwar. It 

 may be considered as inhabiting the Sub-Himalayan terai. 



I apprehend there can be little or no doubt that this deer belongs to the 

 Jiiisa group. I have a nearly ftill-grown female Jurao, and a young male 

 that has not yet thrown out horns. Along with the head I have described 

 I received the head of a young deer, with the sample horns cif the first 

 year's shoot, shot at the same time with the large one. The heads 

 respectively exactly resembled the living young male and the adult 

 female ; and the expi-ession of the heads was precisely alike in both. 

 The heavy mane on the neck, the rise and sigmoid flexure of the sub- 

 orbital sinuses, and the large muzzle, added to the other poinis of 

 similarity, leave no doubt that the species is a Riisa. 



I am also of opinion that the species is distinct from the animals 

 described by Mr. Hodgson, the Kalo, Sato, and Phusro Jarais of 

 Nepaul, and the Rusas of Major H. Smith. If any importance 

 attaches to characters derived from the horns, it cannot be regarded as 

 a variety. The slender form of the horns, the great length and large 

 angle at which the bez antler is throAvu off, and the four-pronged ter- 

 mination of the beam, although either might have existed singly in a 



