tres-tine

In the third year an extra front branch is formed, known as the tres-tine.

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

We then come to the rusine type of three points only -- brow, tres, and royal tines, and of this number are also the spotted and hog deer of India, but the arrangement of the tines is different; and following the rusine type comes the rucervine, in which the tres and royal tines break out into points -- the tres-tine usually bifurcate, and the royal with two, three or more points.

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

Horns of the rusine type, but with the tres-tine longer than the royal or posterior tine; beam much bent; horns paler and smoother than in the sambar; large muffle and eye-pits; canines moderate; feet-pits in the hind-feet only; also groin-pits; tail of moderate length; skin spotted with white; said to possess a gall-bladder.

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

On the right horn underneath the tres-tine is an abnormal snag 9 inches long.

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

-- In body similar to the last, but with much difference in the horns, the tres-tine being greatly developed at the expense of the royal, which gives the antlers a forward cast; the brow-tine is also very long.

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

In this the tres-tine, as well as the royal tine, throw out branches, and in the normal rucervine type the tres and royal are equal as in Schomburgk's deer, but in the extreme type, _Panolia_ or _Rucervus Eldii_ of Burmah, the tres-tine is greatly developed, whilst the royal is reduced to a mere snag.

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

The next phase of development of which we have examples in India is the true cervine or elaphine type of horn in which the brow-tine is doubled by the addition of the bez; the royal is greatly enlarged at the expense of the tres-tine, and breaks out into the branches known as the sur-royals.

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

Schomburgk's deer); the second has the tres-tine larger than the royal (_ex_. our swamp deer); and the extreme type is that in which the royal is represented merely by a snag, the whole horn being bent forward (_ex_. the Burmese _Panolia Eldii_).

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870