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Show 1870.] ANATOMY OF THE PRONGBUCK. 355 (,/), as in the Cervidae and the Giraffe, are of great magnitude, and in the Prongbuck might not inaptly be compared in shape and relative position to the vacuities in the sounding-board of a violin. The anterior nasal opening is as capacious as in the Deer generally, but deviates a little in figure, as it is lower and obviously extends further back. Vertex and profile views, minus the horns, of the skull of the male Antilocapra which lived in the Gardens. sof. Supraorbital foramen. /. Fissure. |