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Show 612 DR. J. MURIE ON THE PANOLIAN DEER. [June 23, intendent. He stated that on his opening the door of the inner stall to clean away refuse, the Deer passed quietly out minus its right horn, and that accidentally it tapped its left born against the doorpost, which horn thereupon tumbled off, bone and all, as I now exhibit it. Little or no blood was lost, as I have already mentioned ; a slight clot formed, but no serious gush of blood took place. 29th May. Animal apparently going on well; no bad symptoms. End of June. Daily I had looked at the creature, and things progressed favourably. At this date the right horn had grown as a good knobby projection. The vacuity iu the skull had filled up; and indications of the probability of a left horn being developed were apparent, but not very decided. During July the beam of the right horn had increased considerably; and ere the month had passed the brow-tyne began to shoot forward. By the middle of the month no doubt existed of a horn coming forth on the left side; the bony deficiency was complete; and from the large tuberous mass and velvet covering, a young horn was distinct. Pedicel and a burr were deficient, the horn springing in an indefinite manner from the osseous prominence. The end of July saw a fair-sized horn. In August considerable growth of both horns took place; the right was higher and far in advance of the left, which was both lower set and irregular as to its division. O n August 31st, or three months after the accident, the two horns presented the appearance indicated in the sketch (A); viz. the right born had a considerable-sized backwardly produced tyne, and an equally well-formed up-curved single brow-tyne. The tyne of the left horn was shorter than the right one, and rather expanded terminally; the brow-tyne was bifid, not single, the snags each shorter and straighter than on the right side, and with a horizontal direction. On the 14th September I noted "that since last date the growth of both horns had gone on steadily, the left making good headway." A week after this I made a memorandum that the malformation of the left brow-tyne was becoming more and more marked, by the snags being relatively shorter than on the right side ; but the difference of size of left and right beams was less, though they were still unequal. An oily-looking perspiration exuded from both horns. As winter and spring went on the horns attained each a good size, the malformation of the left, as above described, remaining a notable feature. The horns thrown off on the above date (28th May, 1868), which I now exhibit, were very much alike, but not quite identical in pattern. They approach Blyth's figure N o. 16 (P. Z. S. 1867, p. 840), his Pegu and Munipur variety. There are two short terminal bifid snags, however, on the beam of the right; and what usually is a vertical snag rising from the root of the beam in the left horn, in our specimen comes to the inner side and partially from the root of the brow-tyne. The divisional measurements give 14 \ inches of length in tbe beams, 6\ inches for the brow-tynes, right basal snag 1 inch, and left basal snag 2\ inches. |