HETEROGONY OF DEER ANTLERS 



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TABLE II 



Body-weight, Antler-weight, Point-number and Relative Antler- 

 weight of 527 Red Deer shot in various parts of Europe 

 (392 collected by Dombrowski ; 10 by Baillie Grohman ; 

 125 by Huxley. Analysed by Huxley, 1931A) 



Arranged by body-weight classes, all of 20-kg. interval (except the 

 last class, of 40-kg. interval) . Note that for Classes 2 to 8 (comprising 

 over 90 per cent, of the animals) the relative antler-weight rises steadily 

 with increasing body-weight, k for antler-weight (except for the 

 last two classes) is about i-6 ; b = -00162. 



TABLE III 



Body- weight, Antler-weight, Point-number and Relative Antler- 

 weight of 405 Roe Deer shot in various parts of Europe 

 (data from Dombrowski ; analysed by Huxley, 1931A) 



k for antler- weight = about 0-57 ; b = -0455. 



