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front almost to a horizontal position. It was brought from Mukte- 

 nauth, about five weeks journey from the valley of Nepal, in a north- 

 westerly direction ;" and the name Cervus Wallichii, I may remark, 

 occurs in the interesting list of Mammalia inhabiting the Tenasserim 

 provinces, prepared by the late unfortunate Dr. Heifer ;* though this 

 alleged identification of the species much requires to be confirmed. 



The pair of antlers in the Society's collection are rather more than 

 two feet long, following the curvature of the beam, five inches and a half 

 round above the burr, and five inches immediately above the two basal 

 tines ; each possesses these, and one of them has no further subdi- 

 vision, while the other throws off what I cannot hesitate in consi- 

 dering to be a median tine, or " royal," the bifurcation being 1 1 inches 

 above the second basal tine, or " bez." Mr. Hodgson, therefore, I 

 feel satisfied, is incorrect in supposing that the Jerrael has no median 

 tine.f In the Gardens of the Zoological Society, there now exist (or 

 did so, when I left England,) a fine pair, male and female, of the noble 

 Persian Stag, or Maral, brought from that country, and presented to 

 the Society, by Sir John McNeill. At the time of their arrival, the 

 male bore his second pair of antlers, (what, however, are usually 

 regarded as the first, though the true Stags, unlike the Fallow Deer, 

 Axis, &c., develope a small knob, or " button," as technically styled, 

 the first year) ; this second pair consisted, as usual, of slender branch- 

 less beams, termed " brockets," but the following year { 1 840) were 

 replaced by a pair corresponding to those of the Jerrael now before 

 me, except that the median tine existed in both antlers. In the com- 

 mon European Stag, the second basal tine is ordinarily wanting at 

 this age, but irregularities of the kind occur in every species : it is 

 remarkable that the two basal tines of the young Maral, or Persian 

 Stag, in the Zoological Gardens, were conjoined for a short space 

 at base, but it remains to be ascertained whether this be a permanent 

 character. In the Jerrael's antlers before me, there is an interval of 

 an inch and a half in one of them, separating the two basal tines, the 

 same as is generally noticeable in the European Stag ; while, in the 

 Wapiti, this scarcely ever exists. For a figure of the pair, vide 

 Plate, fig 7 ; and of those of the Persian species, sketched from 



* Vide Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, /or 1838, p. 897, et seq. 

 t Vide Note to p. 721, ante. 



