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after birth. As the fawns are generally conceived in autumn, 

 and brought forth in spring, this means that antlers are 







Fig. 5. 



-Head of a male American Reindeer, with the antlers in the " velvet." From a 

 stuffed specimen in the British Museum of Natural Histoiy. 



developed in the first summer in the Reindeer, and not until 

 the second summer in the stags of other species. Another 

 peculiarity in the Reindeer is, that whereas the male sheds 



