HORNS AND ANTLERS. 



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evidently belongs to a fully-grown buck, for a young 

 animal would have had much simpler antlers. Indeed, 

 in the fawns of the first year the antlers of the Bed- 



FIG. 78. Head of Fallow-Deer, to show.branching and palmated antlers. 



Deer consist only of a single prong, with a short front 

 tine; and year by year as they are renewed they 

 acquire a greater and still greater number of tines 



