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STAGS. 



WE now come to what may be considered the true 

 Stags, where palmation or flattening of the horna 

 has ceased. Hamilton Smith has placed these ani~ 

 mals in a subgenus Elaphus, to which he has given 

 the character of * Horns round ; three antlers turn- 

 ed to the front ; summit terminating in a fork or in 

 snags from a common centre ; suborbital sinus ; ca- 

 nine teeth in the males ; a muzzle." It is to this 

 small group that the European Stag belongs, repre- 

 sented on the Vignette ; but we shall illustrate the 

 form by 



