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lateral hoofs have proper supporting bones, which are always lacking 

 in the hollow-horned group {Bovidce). Whether the minute caps of 

 bone on the summits of the horns of the male okapi are degenerate 

 antlers, or parallel developments, is difficult to determine. 



The Barbary red deer {Cervus elapJius barbarus) is merely a small 

 local race of the red deer of Europe, of which the typical representative 

 is the Swedish stag. In the African race the shoulder-height is usually 



Fig. 81. — A Barbary Stag at Woburn, from a photograph Ijy the Duchess of Bedford. 



about 46 inches in the stags, and the antlers lack the bez, or second, 

 tine which is developed in the European continental stag. The 

 general colour of the stags in the African race is dark sepia-brown, 

 with a lighter and greyer tinge on the back, and occasionally showing 

 faint traces of yellowish spots, which are fully developed in the fawns. 



These deer are found at the present day in the extreme east of 

 Algeria, in western Tunisia, and, it is reported, in certain parts of 

 Morocco, although this may be doubtful. According to Sir H. H. 

 Johnston, the only districts where they are known with certainty to 



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