502 Indication of Nondescript Species of Deer. 



inches below the root there is a small snag directed forward. 

 We have represented the horns with a portion of the occi- 

 pital and frontal bones adhering to them, (Plate xii. figs. 

 I a. b.) 



We trust Captain Guthrie will endeavour to procure 

 more complete examples of this interesting species; and if 

 possible, a living male and female for the Zoological Society's 

 Menagerie in Regent's Park. This is one of the numerous 

 examples of interesting animals which are still to be found 

 in the forests of India, unknown and undescribed, although 

 many of them are doubtless calculated to confer important 

 benefits on society. 



It is singular that although the vast range of climate 

 which India affords renders it suitable to almost every kind 

 of animal, from the polar bear to the most tropical form, yet 

 that it should have afforded fewer species to European 

 collections than the islands of the Straits, or the small 

 settlement at the Cape of Good Hope.' 



Of 77 species of Quadrumana in the Museum of the Zoolo- 

 gical Society, nearly all from British colonies, only 5 are from 

 continental India., Of 25 species of Lemuridce in the same 

 collection, there is but one from India. Of 47 species of 

 Cheiroptera there are but 6 from India. Of 176 species of 

 Feres, only 30 are from India. Of 16 species of Cetacea 

 and Pachydermata, there is not one from India. Of 16 

 species of Ruminantia, only 15 are from India. Of 184 

 species of Rodentia, only \2 are from India. Of 18 Edenta- 

 ta, there is but one from India. Thus if we take the Museum 

 of the Zoological Society as exhibiting the proportion in 

 which different colonial possessions have contributed to the 

 present stock of known Mammalia up to 1839, the ratio 

 will be — Africa 141 ; South America 115; Indian archipelago 

 75 ; Continental India 66 ; New Holland 50. Were we to take 

 any other class of animals than the most conspicuous, or 

 any other Museum than the principal Zoological collection 

 in Great Britain as the means of comparison, the result 

 would be still less favourable to Indian Zoology. We are 

 happy however to perceive that the Zoological Society and 



