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Table showing the vacations in the size of the antlers of 

 Cervus Browni. 







cq 



00 





CC 



i 



1 



CO 



2^ 



00 



g 







Circumference abore 



5-4 

 5-4 



6-5 

 1-5 

 5-4 



3-6 

 1-75 

 0-75 

 18-0 



5-4 



48 



70 



105 



5-0 



0-62 



4-8 



5-5 



6-5 



7-8 

 1-35 



1-1 

 5-0 



0-8 

 50 



0-8 

 5-3 



5-0 

 ... 



40 



5-8 



6-8 



3-8 



6-2 

 6-7 



0-7 

 5-6 



5-2 



0-92 

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Maximum length of 

 brow-tyne(i) 



Length of beam be- 

 tween brow- and bez- 

 antler 



Breadth of bez.antler(c) 



Length of bez-antler 



Length of beam be- 

 tween bez-antler and 

 third tyne 



Breadth of third tyne 

 (d) 



Breadth of back tyne 



iff) 



Length of beam from 

 base to back tyne ... 



Inner length of pedi- 

 cle (Rosenstocke) (2) 



Circumference of pedi- 

 cle 



4. Comparison with Cervus dama. — The antlers of Cervus Browni 

 are totally unlike those of any existing species excepting Cervus 

 -dama, to which they approach so closely that the type specimen, 

 fig. 4, was considered by Dr. Palconer * to belong to the latter. 

 The basal half, indeed, so strongly resembles the corresponding por- 

 tion of that of Cervus dama that it would be almost impossible to 

 differentiate fragments from which the coronal portion had been 

 broken away. But the resemblance ends at the second tyne (c). 

 If the series of antlers of Cervus Browni (figs. 1 and 7) be compared 

 with those of the Fallow-deer which have been reproduced from 

 Professor Blasius's t valuable work, there is this important dif- 

 ference visible : in the former (PL XYII. fig. 4), the third tyne, d, is 

 present on the anterior aspect, while in the latter (PI. XYIII. 

 figs. 3-8) it is altogether absent. "With this exception, the antlers 

 of the two species are most closely allied ; and PI. XVII. fig. 4 cor- 

 responds almost exactly with PI. XYIII. fig. 5, the third of the series 

 of antlers selected by Professor Blasius as typical of Cei^us dama. To 

 the objection that the development of the third anterior tyne may 

 have been an accident, it may be answered that it is to be found 

 in none of the endless variations of form assumed by the antlers of 



* Op. cit. vol. ii. p. 480. 



t Fauna der Wirbelthiere, vol. i. fig. 237. Braunschweig, 1857- 



