66 Note on the Cervus Jarai. [Feb. 



In size, the horns vary from 22 to 27 inches of straight mea- 

 surement, and are straighter in proportion as they are less fully 

 grown. The number of the annuli seems to depend on the size of the 

 horns ; their development, not so ; for in the smallest that I possess 

 the rings are as strongly marked as in the largest. The rings are 

 round-edged, and very fully and uniformly displayed on the frontal 

 surface ; much less fully or regularly on the dorsal - and lateral 

 surfaces ; round both which the annuli are apt to be continued 

 brokenly only and evanescently. As if, however, to prove that the 

 true character of these marks is annulation, you will sometimes find 

 a ring carried all round the horn in equal and full development. The 

 divergency of the horns at their tips is usually as half their length : 

 the interval at the bases so small, that the little finger can barely be 

 passed between the horns in that part. 



The lateral compression is always strongly marked, and extends 

 evanescently to within about six inches of the tips of the horns. 



The terminal portion is smooth and rounded, and the extreme points 

 sharp, and turned inwards as well as forwaids. 

 N/'pal, March 1, 1832. 



III. — Note relative to the account oj the Cervus Jai di, published 

 in the Gleanings, No. 34, by the same. 



In my description of the Jarai, above alluded to, I observed that it 

 has " no peculiar elongation of the hair on any part of the body." 



The mateiials of that description were chiefly derived from the 

 examination of a living animal ; which examination was conducted in 

 August, or at the height of the hot-weather, when, their being really 

 no signs of such elongation of the hair, I stated the fact accordingly. 



Subsequently, it occurred to me, that the hairy covering of the 

 Ruminantia is apt to vary considerably in character with the seasons 

 as -well as with increasing years, and I therefore again visited and 

 examined the individual in question (a young male), in the beginning of 

 February ; when, somewhat to my surprise 1 confess, I found the infe- 

 rior surface of his head, as far forwards as the gape, the whole of his 

 neck, and the top of his shoulders, invested with shaggy hair more 

 than twice the length of that of the body. So adorned, the animal is 

 readily assignable, (with the assistance of Griffith's Cuvier, a copy 

 of which I have just received from my bookseller,) to the Rusa 

 group of Major H. Smith, and possibly to the species Equinus 

 of that able writer. Since my description of the Jarai was 

 composed, I have received some splendid spoils and important 



