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drico-depressed, moderately and uniformly clothed with hair ; in general 

 resembling the tails of the Axis and Fallow Deer : the neck, shortish and 

 rather spare : the head, rather large ; of small vertical dimensions ; 

 tapered ; the nose acuminated, and having a well defined, moist, and nak^ 

 ed muzzle : the eyes large and beautiful, with transverse oblate pupils : 

 the ears, rather small and well formed ; moderately opened; the lining, a 

 small quantity of longish, soft, hair, disposed into stripes or striae on a 

 naked ground ; the tips, rounded. I have already observed that the muzzle 

 is moist ; and the suborbital sinuses, large and conspicuous. Comparing 

 the cranium of the IZatwa with the skulls of other and large Deer, 

 nothing markedly peculiar to the former arrests the attention save the two 

 elevated ridges bounding the whole extent of the frontal bones, and which 

 have been already particularly noticed. The cranium of the Ratwa may, 

 however, be further distinguished by the relative length of the frontal, and 

 correlative shortness of the nasal bones. 'Yhe Itahva s forehead is decidedly, 

 tho' slightly, convex ; and the usual drop or depression is farther forward, 

 and less sudden than it is observed to be in large Deer. Owing to the 

 character and position of their respective horns, the brain is thrown less 

 far back ; and, lastly, the nasal bones are void of that arcuation which 

 usually belongs to those of large Deer. The bony cavities prepared for 

 the lachrymal sacks, and corresponding with the suborbital fissures of the 

 superficies, are, in the Ratwa, as large as, or larger even in proportion, 

 than, those of the huge Barn Siiihas head. The tusks of the Ratwa have 

 the same general character with those of the proper or Tibetan 3Iusk: * 

 but they are shorter, stouter, less compressed, and iiiutli more curved. 

 The portion exerted from the jaw is about 1| inch in length, — measured 

 straightly — 2jj inches ni extent as measured along the eurvo. They 

 are loose in the sockets, but fixable at the auinuirs pleasure. Tlie 

 Ralwa, when taken young, can be tanud as ca.sily and cllcctually 



* Vide Shan's Genera^ Zoology, \ o\. II. [>. '2o\). 



