CHAPTER XXIII 

 THE UNGULATES continued 



THE DEER TRIBE 

 Family CBRVID^E 



THE last representatives of the true Ruminants, or, as they are technically 

 called, Pecora, include the typical deer, the elk, the reindeer, the musk deer, etc. 



SKELETON OF MALE RED DEER. 



The great and distinctive feature of this group is the general presence in the male 

 sex of the peculiar branched appendages on the skull, which are now generally 

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