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the antler of the right side is bifurcated a short distance above the point ot 

 origin of tlie bez-tine. The lower branch of the fork has two points, 

 representing the third and apparently the fourth tine, while the hinder 

 and larger branch terminates in a fork corresponding to a portion of the 

 crown of the complete antler of the opposite side. 



More remarkable still is the specimen shown in Fig. 47, also from the 



Fig. 47, — Red Deer Antlers, showing complete dtiplication on the right side. 

 From the Powerscourt Collection. 



Powerscourt collection. Here the left antler is complete, with the normal 

 number of tines. The entire right antler is, however, completely double, 

 from burr to crown, the lower beam showing even a rudimentary brow 

 and hez-tine. Neither of the duplicated antlers displays any trace of a 

 trez-tine, but the crowns of the two are almost replicas of one another. 

 This resemblance between the duplicated antlers is very remarkable and 

 unusual ; in malformations of this nature some of the tines beino; usuallv 



