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upwards, and not outwards and forwards (like a veritable second basal 

 tine, or " bez"). Neither the second basal nor the median tine ever 

 occurs in the Axine or Rusa group, to which the C. Elaphoides may be 

 referred, a species wherein (normally) each of the ordinary two coronal 

 prongs of the Axine group merely bifurcatesy with a tendency to sub- 

 divide further ; the C. Elaphoides has, besides, the shorter and thicker 

 body of the Axines, and no disk surrounding and ascending above 

 the tail, as in the true or Elaphine Stags. Its naked muzzle, also (if I 

 mistake not), is more expanded, as in other Axines. 



Figures 1 to 6 represent some picked antlers of the Wapiti Stag 

 ( Cervus Canadensis) ; 7, of the young Jerrael Stag ( C. Wallichii) ; 

 8, 9, of the Stag of Kashmir ( C. Wallichii?) ; 10, of the young 

 Maral, or Persian Stag ; 11, of the great Hungarian Stag ; 12, a singu- 

 lar and very abnormal variety of the European Stag. 



Figure 2 represents a Wapiti antler, with the basal tines a little 

 removed apart, which is very seldom the case in this species, though 

 common in C. Elaphus ; fig. 3, represents a trifurcating crown, which 

 is also rarely seen in the Wapiti ; fig. 4, either wants the median tine, or 

 has it removed so high up the beam that it appears part of the crown ; 

 figs. 8, 9, representing an antler of the Kashmir Stag, scarcely differ 

 from fig. 2 ; fig. 10, representing an antler of the young Persian 

 species (drawn from memory only, though I pledge its essential cor- 

 rectness), is remarkable for having its basal tines united for a short 

 space where they issue forth, and may be compared with fig. 7, illus- 

 trating what I consider to be the corresponding age of C. Wallichii; 

 in the northern European Stag ( C. Elaphus ), and a very nearly allied, 

 but larger, fossil congener, the basal tines are even commonly as much 

 separated as in fig. 11, though typically approximated as in the Wapiti ; 

 fig. 12, an abnormal antler of C. Elaphus^ wants the second basal 

 tine, which, however, is not unusual in young animals of this species, 

 and presents a strangely ramifying crown; the specimen is in the 

 British Museum. 



