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Show 1876.] SIR V. BROOKE ON CERVUS MESOPOTAMICUS. 299 The accompanying drawings, lettered according to the figures given in m y original notice of the species (I. c. pp. 263 & 264, figs. 2 & 3) represent the left horns of four individuals; and all, with the exception of the largest (fig. 1), have been taken from the animals Fig. 1. Left antler of Cervus mesopotamicus (remarkably largely developed). after death. As compared with the single horn of the adult male (I. c. p. 264, fig. 3.) which formed the basis of m y description of the fully grown horns of the species, the horns at present under consideration offer no very essential points of contrast, the characters presented by the new specimens in no way tending to render the anomalous form of horn described by m e as characteristic of the species, less decided. There are, however, certain not entirely unimportant details in whicli the new specimens (consisting of single horns of six distinct males, in- |