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the wild Boar of India, the upper measuring If in. long, by \^ in. 

 broad anteriorly. Vertex narrowing to 1 in. only in breadth. Total 

 length of skull, from vertex to tips of nasals, 16^ in. Altogether, this 

 skull approximates closely in contour to the figures of the skull of Sus 

 barbatus by Dr. S. Miiller and M. Temminck. 



Ruminantia. Cervid^e. The " Elk" of Ceylon appears to be Rusa 

 hippelaphus of India generally, vel Cervus equinus, F. Cuv., of the 

 Malayan peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo ; found also in the interven- 

 ing Burmese countries. Axis maculatus is common : also Munt- 

 jacus vaginalis, of which the heads of both sexes were sent for 

 identification by Dr. Kelaart. Meminna indica abounds*. Lastly, 

 Dr. Kelaart informs us of the existence of a species affined to Axis 

 porcintjs, and probably undescribed ; living examples of which he 

 has recently shipped for the London zoological gardens.f 



* " The Moschidce," writes Mr. H. N. Turner, jun. (Ann. Mag. N. FT., 2d 

 series, VI, 482) " must, of course, be distinguished from the Cervicitis by their 

 trilocular stomach, and by the presence of the gall bladder." We have never 

 found the latter to exist, however, in the Chevrotains. 



■f These, we now learn, have arrived in London, and are considered to be distinct 

 and new. We are also informed that the (so called) Hog Deer of the banks of the 

 Indus (C. dodur ? Royle,) is distinct from the Axis porcinus of Bengal, Nepal, 

 Asain, Arakan,Tenasserim, &c. — While on the subject of Deer, it may be remarked 

 that Mr. Gray, in his ' List of osteological specimens in the collection of the British 

 Museum,' gives as distinct species of the Elaphine group " Cervus cashmirensis, 

 Falconer, MS.," and " Cervus (Wallichii ?) affinis" of Mr. Hodgson. We 

 have little doubt that these will prove to be the same, and refer to figs. 8 and 9 

 of the plate accompanying /. A. S. X, 750, representing a horn of the Kashmir 

 Stag, for comparison with Mr. Hodgson's various figures of those of C. affinis 

 (J. A. S. X, 722, XTX, 466,519). We continue to be, as formerly, of opinion that 

 the species is Cervus Wallichii, Duvaucel, figured and described from a young 

 animal at that time living in the Calcutta Botanic Garden, the identical pair of 

 horns it bore being now in the Society's museum, and represented /. A. S. X, 750, 

 pi., fig. 7. In all probability, it is also the Irbisch, or great Stag of Siberia, 

 mentioned by Strahlenberg ; if not likewise the Persian Maral, which we saw 

 alive in London ; and (as remarked on a former occasion, J. A. S. X, 747,) we 

 "cannot doubt that, with full maturity, this noble species possesses a terminal 

 crown to its antlers, assuming thus every feature of a typical member of the ela- 

 phine group ;" the crown being, however, probably as in the Wapiti (C. canaden- 

 sis, vide X, 750, pi., figs. 4, 6), rather than as typically in the European Stag 

 (C. elaphus). The C. Wallichii, as figured by Mons. F. Cuvier, most close- 



