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Show 1 9 0 5 .] OX A HORSE BEARIXG HORX-LIKE STRUCTURES. 3 2 3 almost entirely white, and its dimensions, taken in tlie flesh, are as follows :-- Head and body 341 mm., tail 65, hind foot 82, ear 70 ; weight 2 lbs. -foz. The skull's greatest length 75 mm., basal length 57-5. It seems curious that this Rabbit does not occur on the mainland of Crete, and I have found no record of its having done so formerly. Raulin wrote* of it as being very plentiful in the small islands off the coast, and a man who brought me three from Dliia, off Candia, said that it is still found there in considerable numbers. 16. C a p r a .e g a g r u s c r e t e x s is Lorenz-Liburnau f. The Cretan Wild Goat has been known from very early times, and has doubtless acquired an added interest on account of the legend of Zeus' upbringing on Mount Ida by the goat Amalthea. It is still found in the three main mountain masses of the island- the Aspro Vouno, Mount Ida, and the Lassetlie Mountains. One skin, that of a J , was forwarded to me in the spring of the present year (1905), it having been obtained during the winter in the Sphakia district. The horns indicate an animal of eight years old, and measure 605 mm. along the front curve, while the circumference at the base is 175 mm. The greatest length of horn given by Dr. Lorenz-Liburnau i for this subspecies is 81 cm. (810 mm.), this being in a seven-year old specimen preserved in the Vienna Museum. November 28, 1905, Dr. H e x r y W o o d w a r d , F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. Mr. J. T. Cunningham, M.A., F.Z.S., exhibited some photographs of a Horse bearing structures that he interpreted as incipient horns, and made the following remarks:- The peculiarity of the liorse represented in these photographs was described by Dr. G. W. Eustace, of Arundel, before the Linnean Society in 1903. The horse, the name of which is " Domain," was then in the stables of Mr. Alfred Day at ‘ The Hermitage' near Arundel, and was still there when, by the kindness of Mr. Day, these photographs were taken for me in October last. A few other similar cases have been recorded, but the pedigree of Domain contains no individuals which are known to have possessed the peculiarity, and it appears therefore to be a new variation, not a result of reversion or heredity. Dr. Eustace's paper was illustrated by plaster casts of the forehead of Domain which are now in the Natural History Museum, and Dr. Ridewood has presented to the Museum the frontal * Op. cit. vol. i. p. 253. f ‘ Die Wildzie^en der Griechisclien Inseln &c.,' 1889. J Op. cit. p. 24. |
