deer’s noRN. 
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never to be dislodged now they are numerously 
established in fastnesses so peculiarly difficult, and so 
congenial to their habits and instincts.” 
The antler in question at length came, through the 
kind offices of my friend, into my possession ; but 
the result of a careful examination of published de- 
scriptions, and a rigid collation of the specimen with 
the extensive collection of Deer’s horns in the British 
Museum, proved indubitably that it had belonged to 
no native American form of Cervidce, but to our own 
familiar Fallow-deer {Dama vulgaris). Of course I 
immediately communicated to my esteemed coadjutor 
this unexpected conclusion, and I annex his note in 
reply. 
‘‘Dec 24, 1850. — I am quite satisfied you have 
got the right clue to Sir Charles Price’s escaped 
Cerfs in the mountains of St. Catherine’s. The 
information without doubt is quite correct that he 
got specimens of the Mexican Deer ; — but, as he 
introduced at once a park, that is, about 8 or 10 
pair, it is evident he drew his colony from Europe. 
The Mexican Deer he could scarcely obtain more 
numerously than buck and doe, — for the Indians 
have never so far advanced in the habits of a pastoral 
people as to herd their native animals. The Guazuti 
are very frequently brought to this island. A pair 
belonging to the 2nd W. Ind. Regiment have been 
for the last two years inhabitants of the barrack- 
yard in this town. They are frolicksome and mis- 
chievous ; — their tint a dun-ash ; — their ears large ; 
their hair coarse and wavy ; their body long and full- 
barrelled, so that the shape does not give one an 
