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which this abnormal spongy growth develops varies in difterent examples. 

 In a specimen figured by Mr. Millais on the last page of British Deer and 

 their Horns the growth forms a kind of beehive-shaped casque, envelop- 

 ing almost the whole of the top and front ot the head, trom the ears to 

 half-way between the eyes and the nose, and only leaving one eye tree. 

 The longest roe-antlers recorded in Mr. Rowland Ward's work on horn 



Fig. 60. — Antlers of European Roc showing Spongy Malformation. From a specimen in the 



Collection of \^isconnt Povverscourt. 



dimensions measure 13 inches along the front curve; this length being 

 attained in six different specimens. 



Before leaving the subject of roe-antlers, reference may be made to two 

 shed antlers figured (Nos. 4 and 5) by Mr. Millais on page 171 of British 

 Deer aiiJ their Horns as those of the " Pleistocene Roe." One was found 

 in Ross-shire and the other in Perthshire ; but the curious thin" is how 

 they came there, since they belong to the South American pampas deer, 

 and have nothing to do with the roe. This is sufficiently evident from 



