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Show 1869.] CERVINE ANIMALS OF HAINAN. 655 Cervus eldi. (Fifth year.) Fig. 3. Cervus eldi. at base of brow-antler; the postlateral snag fully developed, with two diminutive tines together in rear of it. The point is greatly flattened and forked on giving off a snag from above with a pimplelike tine lower on the same surface. In the larger of the old horns the snag at the base of the brow-antler is diminutive ; the postlateral snag small, the point somewhat flattened, with two small tines on its upper edge, near the postlateral, and a larger tine higher up, making a fork with the tip. I exhibit two somewhat similar horns (fig. 3, a, b), perhaps of animals still more aged. I conclude that the typical horn is free from all snags except the postlateral, which itself is of uncertain growth. A pair of antlers in the British Museum tally with m y five-year old ; but most of the horns there are large and of more adult |
