SIR STAMFORD RAFFLE’S STORIES 
a tree when hotly pursued by an enemy. The actual 
founder of the Zoological Society, whose bust adorns the 
Lion house, was told, and has told us, that a kanchil will 
neatly leap into a tree when fugitive and remain there 
in a state of suspense by its long canines. All we can 
say is, there are the teeth and here is the story. The 
tusks, it should be added, are an attribute of the male. 
The only living ally of the Tvagulus is the African 
Hyomoschus, a shorter limbed but small deerlet, which 
is also of a brown colour with spots and stripes. One 
species of kanchil, Tvagulus stanleyanus, recalls the 
memory of one of the early Presidents of the Zoological 
Society, the Earl of Derby, whose menagerie at Knowsley 
was sold in the early fifties, and the inhabitants largely 
drafted off to our Zoo. . - 
THE REINDEER 
The reindeer, Rangijer tarandus, is unique among 
the deer tribe by reason of the fact that both sexes 
bear horns. In other deer, as is well known, the 
stags alone are horned, the does being hornless. The 
reindeer, like the elk or moose, is circumpolar ; and 
also like that animal, the American have been dis- 
tinguished from the Northern European and Asiatic 
forms. More than this indeed ; according to the most 
recent estimate of likenesses and unlikenesses nine 
distinct species of reindeer are allowed to the American 
continent and adjacent regions including Greenland. 
With the splitting of species we have nothing to do 
here save recording that it is mainly American in its 
inception, but has been eagerly followed in this 
country by some whose knowledge of animal life is 
limited to an acquaintance with the dead skin and the 
dried skull. In Europe the reindeer is not merely 
“game”; it is used by the inhabitants of Scandinavia, 
and has been from times of antiquity, as a beast of 
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