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Show 1897.] ON THE HEAD AND HORNS OF A FALLOW DEER. 189 interesting one, and was not well represented in the National Collection of Birds. Macronyx croceus (Vieill.). Pholldauges verreauxl, Bocage. Corvultur alhlcollls (Lath.). Corvus scapulatus, Dana. Merops persicus, Pall. Lophocerus melanoleucus (Licht.). Gallirex chlorochlamgs, Shelley. Centropus natalensis, Shelley. Strlxflammea, Linn. Milvus cegyptlus (Gm.). Nlsaetus belllcosus (Daud.). Polyhoroldes typicus, Smith. Hagedashia hagedasch (Lath.). Herodlas lucida, Raf. alba (Linn.). Ardea ardesiaca, Wagl. melanocephcda, Vig. et Childr. Mycterla senegalensis, Shaw. Anastomus lamelligerus, Temm. Tantalus Ibis, Linn. Phalacrocorax africanus (Gm.). Phcenlcopterus roseus, Pall. Plectropterus niger, Scl. Pternistes nudicollls (Bodd.). Otis melanogaster, Biipp. Totanus nebularlus (Gunner). Numenius arcuatus (Linn.). phceopus (Linn.). Himantopus candidus (Bonn.). Mr. B. E. Holding exhibited (on behalf of Sir Douglas Brooke, Horns of Fallow Deer, showing malformations. A, shed horn, bringing away only a small portion of the outer table B, horn shed in the succeeding year, bringing away a much larger portion owing to exostosis at the point of fracture. In C the disease has enveloped the entire frontal bone, causing thickening of the horn-base and other malformations. |
