RED DEER. 



enough, and are given above as plainly as 

 possible. 



It is characteristic of the English red deer 

 that the brow-points are always longer than 

 the bay-points, those next to them. Indian 

 deer have the bay-points longer than the 

 brow exactly the reverse. A pair of Indian 

 antlers are fixed in the huntsman's porch at 

 Exford, and beside these he has a pair of 

 Exmoor horns, which he succeeded in getting 

 hold of, and which resemble the Indian in 

 this particular. For once the Exmoor horns 

 have the second points longest the excep- 

 tion demonstrating the rule. 



As the new horns grow on the stag's 

 head they are at first soft and even flexible, 

 and the stag is careful to avoid striking them 

 against anything. They are covered with a 

 skin called the velvet; it is of a brown 

 colour, soft, like plush. While this bark or 

 skin remains on the horn the stag is said to 



