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from Monghyr district; and M. spinulosus, n. s., # from the Punjab: 

 heads, and a skin of the female, of Ovis Vignei (mistaken for the very- 

 different O. Montana, Geoff., in Major A. Cunningham's f Ladak') ;f and 

 horns for exhibition to the meeting of the Honglu or Stag of Kashmir, 

 and of the Shou or Tibetan Stag. 



Of the former, are one loose pair, and three odd horns ; and we have 

 also the pleasure to exhibit a fine frontlet of the same species, sent for 

 exhibition to the meeting by Major A. Broome; and the noble frontlet 

 of C. canadensis figured in J. A. S. XXII, No. 7- 



A glance suffices to shew that the three are distinct species : the Kash- 

 mirian being a smaller Stag than the Tibetan, and more nearly affined 

 to the British Eed Deer, or C. elaphus : bearing horns of a size to suit 

 the Persian Maral. which we saw alive in London, and which is most 

 probably the same animal. Iudeed, from the series under inspection, 

 it may fairly be inferred that some horns of the adult Kashmirian Stag 

 would be undistinguishable from some horns of the European Stag : though, 

 generally, the Kashmirian are larger, with less ramifying crown ; but 

 scarcely larger than some from the German forests, % and especially than 

 European fossil specimens, considered without doubt to belong to ela- 

 phus : these large European specimens, however, have much finer crowns 

 than hitherto appear to have been met with in the Stag of Kashmir. In 

 all, even the finest, horns of the Tibetan Stag hitherto obtained, the crown 

 consists of a simple bifurcation, exhibiting no tendency to ramify further. 

 In those of five individuals of the Kashmirian Stag under review, the 

 crowns of three trifurcate, but without shewing a tendency to further 

 subdivision; and the beam is less abruptly bent at the origin of the 

 median or royal antler, than in the Tibetan Skou.§ In Major Broome's 



* Mus spinulosus, nobis. Nearly affined to M. I'latythrix, Sykes ; but of 

 a dark dusky colour above, with fulvous tips to the softer fur : below, and all the 

 feet, whitish. Upper rodential tusks orange, the lower white. Whiskers long 

 and fine, ihe posterior and longer of them black for the basal half or more, the 

 rest white. Length of adult male (in spirit), 3f in. ; tail 3 in. (about, the extreme 

 tip wanting in the specimen) ; planta, £ in. 



f O. Montana is the N. American representative of O. ammon ; of the same 

 size, but with still more massive horns, bulging more between the angles ; also with 

 much black on the front of the neck, where O. ammon is white. 



J Vide description of a pair, in J. A. S. X, 749. 



§ Vide Major Cunningham's representation of simply bifurcating horns of the 

 Kashmir Stag, * Ladak,' &c. pi. VII. Also figs. 8 and 9 of plate to J. A. S.X, 

 750. And compare these with Mr. Hodgson's highly characteristic figure of the 



