Electroretinogram (ERG) flicker photometry was used to study the spectral mechanisms in the retinas of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and fallow deer (Dama dama). In addition to having a rod pigment with maximum sensitivity (lambda max) of about 497 nm, both species appear to have two classes of photopic receptors. They share in common a short-wavelength-sensitive cone mechanism having lambda max in the region of 450-460 nm. Each also has a cone having peak sensitivity in the middle wavelengths, but these differ slightly for the two species. In white-tailed deer the lambda max of this cone is about 537 nm; for the fallow deer the average lambda max value for this mechanism was 542 nm. Deer resemble other ungulates and many other types of mammal in having two classes of cone pigment and, thus, the requisite retinal basis for dichromatic color vision.

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The complexes [PbL1(N03),]-H20, (1)-H,O, and [PbL2(N0,),]-H20, (2)-H,O, where L1 and L2 are corresponding di-imino-and diamino-macrocycles containing an N303 donor set, have been synthesized and characterised. X-Ray structural analyses of the anhydrous form of (1) and ( 2) have revealed significantly different co-ordination environments for the lead(ii) ion in the complexes. In (1 ), L1 utilises all six possible donors in a ten-co-ordinate complex, with no apparent stereochemical activity of the lone pair on lead(ii). Crystals of (1) were monoclinic, space group P2Jn (alternative no. 14) with a = 30.245( 6), b = 10.271 (2), c = 16.246(3) A, p = 95.05(3)", and

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