162 
NEPAUL STAG. 
but on the white spot, it is frizzled and curled ; up- 
on the neck, under the throat, it is longer than on 
the other parts, while on the head and limbs it is 
much shorter. The lachrymal glands are of mo- 
derate size. The horns, which wdden from right 
to left, so as considerably to overreach the sides 
of the head, from the first antlers, are turned back- 
wards, and then rise vertically; upon each horn 
above*the burr, very near to each other, spring two 
antlers, which are directed forwards, the first de- 
scending, the second rising ; and in the middle of 
the horn a third antler springs, which is directed a 
little outwards. 
Tlie fossil cranium and horns of a stag have been 
found in America, to which Dr Harlan has applied 
the name of C. Americanus. 
The next group in Major Smith’s arrangement, 
are Asiatic Stags, chiefly inhabiting the forests of 
India, and distinguished from the other deer by 
having round horns, with a brow', but no median ant- 
ler. This has been denominated the Riisa group, 
and may stand as a subgenus of Cervus. They are 
of large size, and diflFer principally from the true 
Stags in the form of their horns, possessing canine 
teeth, and large lachrymal glands. Most of them 
have also an ample mane, and long dewlap hairs. 
The first species w’e shall notice is one of those ap- 
parently most anciently known, and by the best con- 
tinental zoologists thought to he identical w’ith the 
1 lippelaphas of Aristotle. 
