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was led by a deer of unusual size, which his guides assured 

 him was always a female. The stags and hinds of red-deer, 

 on the other hand, out of the pairing season, generally do not 

 mix but form small herds, each containing animals of one 

 sex. A herd of stags is said during this part of the year to 



Fig. 6. Head of a female Norwegian Reindeer, with mature antlers. From a stuffed 

 specimen in the British Museum of Natural History. 



live in perfect harmony, always under the recognised leader- 

 ship of one of their number, while a herd of hinds is more 

 republican. 1 



Another view of the development of antlers in female rein- 

 deer may be taken, namely, that it is an instance of the 



1 Lydekker, Deer of All Lawls, 1898, p. 72. 



