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the exception of a short hlack mane, and a tinge of tawny on the shoulders 

 and back." 



Here again, as in the case of the white oryx, it is somewhat difficult to 

 refuse credence to such comparatively strong testimony, which (as in the 

 case ot the species last named) is accepted by Dr. Trouessart in his Catalogus 

 Maiinim/ii/iii. Still, it is somewhat significant that no specimens of white 

 oryx or addax horns trom Asia appear to exist in any English collection. 

 The longest pair on record are those of a mounted male specimen from 

 Tunisia (Fig. 45) presented to the British Museum by Mr. J. f. S. 

 Whitaker ; their length being 38^ inches measured along the front curve, 

 and 30,^, inches in a straight line. 



THE RED DEER 



[Ccrviis chiphus) 



In the case ot such a tamiliar animal as the red deer of Western 

 Europe, of which the typical representative is the stag ot Scandinavia, the 

 birthplace ot LiniKvus, it would be worse than useless to repeat once 

 more anything approacliing a detailed description, more especially as a 

 considerable amount of space is devoted to that subject in Deer of All 

 hands. But the red deer is likewise the type of the genus Cei-viis, and a 

 few words are accordingly advisable with regard to the characteristics by 

 which the members of that extensive group are distinguished from the 

 other representatives of the deer family. 



In all species ot Cervi/s the antlers, which are normally developed in 

 the stags alone, arise from the forehead obliquely and are furnished on 

 each side with a brow-tine, above which are a variable number of other 

 tines and points. Although typically more or less nearly cylindrical, they 

 may (as in the fallow deer) be much flattened out, or palmated. A 



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