174 FRANK FOKESTER's FIELD SPOFTS. 



horns : The main stem rises upwai'd and laterally, and then 

 makes a broad curve forward, with the tips turned inward and 

 downward ; on the inner, and slightly anterior surface of the 

 main stem, arises a short lirow antler, directed forward and up- 

 ward ; the stem, thus far, is roughened by nodosities and fur- 

 rows ; above this, a branch is thrown off from the interior, or 

 anterior, curving inwards and forwards, and occasionally ano- 

 ther branch before reaching the tip. These first and second 

 branches are occasionally themselves bifurcated ; and in one 

 before me now, the horns exhibit six tips on one side, including 

 those of the brow antlers ; and on the other nine, the first 

 branch being bifid, the second trifid, a third simple, and the ex- 

 treme tip itself bifid. When the horn is palmated, the flattening 

 occurs at the origin of the first branch. In many specimens 

 there is only the brow antler, and a single branch alone. Fur, 

 composed of flattened angular hairs, lying smooth upon the 

 body. 



" Color. — Bluish-gray in the autumn and winter ; dusky red- 

 dish, or fulvous, in the spring ; becoming bluish in the summer. 

 The fawns are irregularly spotted with white. The gray, or 

 reddish color in the adult, extends over the whole head, back, 

 sides, and upper part of the tail ; a few white hairs often ob- 

 served on the rump, at the origin of the tail. Beneath the 

 chin, throat, belly, and inside of legs, and underside of tail, 

 always white ; ears margined with dark brown, and often with 

 white hairs within, — and a white circle round the eyes ; hoofs 

 jet black. Total length, (average,) sixty-eight inches ; length 

 of tail, including hairs, six inches ; height of ear, four inches. 



" This well-known animal is still found in almost every part 

 of the S'ate where there is sufficient forest to afford them food 

 and cover. From the mountainous regions of Orange, Rock- 

 land, and Delaware, the city market is supplied in great abun- 

 dance during the winter. In the most northerly counties, they 

 are not numerous ; and in other counties, the united attacks of 

 Men and Wolves are daily decreasing their number. Under the 

 article Wolf, we have shown how destructive the Wolves are 



