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Show 1896.] ON A THREE-HORNED FALLOW DEER. 855 primaries and smoky-brown secondaries with oblique ochreous subanal line to outer margin readily distinguish it. EXPLANATION OF PLATE XLIII. Fig. 1. Physccenura pione, var. lucida, c$, p- 853. Fig. 2. Mylothris yulei, <$, p. 853. Fig. 3. Phrissura nyasana, $, p. 853. Fig. 4. Phcegorista zebra, $, p. 854. Fig. 5. Antiphella alrinotata, $, P- 854. Fig. 6. Fodina johnstoni, J, p. 854. December 1, 1896. Sir W . H . F L O W E R , K.C.B., LL.D., P.E.S., President, in the Chair. Mr. E. E. Holding exhibited (on behalf of Sir Eobert Harvey, Bart.) the head of a three-horned Fallow Deer (Bama vulgaris), and pointed out in his remarks that it was a good illustration of the complete bifurcation of the entire beam of the right horn-the anterior portion carrying a small frontal tine, the second tine, and portion of the palm; while the posterior beam, starting from an independent burr at the base of the horn, carried the characteristic Head of three-horned Fallow Deer. |