178 Captain B. G. Beavan on JPanolia eldi. [No. 3, 



voyage home but small. I have written to a friend in the valley to 

 send me a complete skeleton of one with the skin &c, and he has 

 kindly promised to do so if he can succeed in procuring one ; hut says 

 he can hold me out but slender hopes, as the Deer now seem to bear 

 a charmed life, and roam about unpersecuted by anybody." 



The next detailed description of this deer was given by Dr. 

 McLelland in 1842,* and I quote his remarks nearly in full. 



" Although differing considerably in the form of the horns from 

 any of the Rusa deer, still the general form, the colour, the 

 mane, and the Asiatic habitation of the species, seem to refer it to 

 the Rusa group, of which it forms one of the most unique and striking 

 examples. 



" The form of the skull agrees more with that of Gervus hippelaplms 

 than with that of any other species that I can refer it to, but the 

 nasal and intermaxillary bones, as well as the muzzle generally, seem 

 to be somewhat mere prolonged and compressed, and though the face 

 is broad and flat between the eyes, the forehead is compressed, and 

 the head as well as the muzzle narrow, and the profile nearly straight, 

 but with a short prominent ridge commencing on the forehead, and 

 extending between the horns. There are two canine teeth, not much 

 developed, in the upper jaw of both sexes, and the suborbital sinuses 

 are large. 



" The horns are large and directed backwards, and obliquely out- 

 wards without ascending from the burr : they are then curved gradually 

 upwards and outwards, and terminate in a point directed forward. A 

 single small antler extends obliquely inward from the upper third of 

 the horn ; this antler in young individuals appears to form a fork with 

 the summit, but in the adult it is placed about six or seven inches 

 from the top point of the horn, and is more or less developed according 

 to age ; in the adult, and particularly in aged individuals, an imper- 

 fect nodular spine extends from the base of this antler towards the 

 point of the horn, with several irregular blunt snags arising from it, 

 forming an incomplete kind of crown. The broiv antler advances 

 directly forward from the burr, and bending upwards and onwards, 

 terminates in a point which, if prolonged, would meet the summit of 

 the horn, and thus complete an almost perfect circle. 



* Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist,, Vol. III. p. 401, PL XIII. XIV. 



