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parks, differs in having the horns round at the base, 

 and palmated at the tips. The white spots upon 

 the pale variety make it a beautiful animal : the 

 dark kind was introduced by James I. from Norway, 

 to render the breed more hardy. That gigantic fos- 

 sil animal, usually called the Irish Elk (C. Gigan- 

 teus), was not an Elk, but a true Deer. Its height at 

 the shoulder was six feet, and to the top of the horn 

 more than nine feet and a half. 



The Stags, of which our Red Deer (C. Elaphus) 

 and the Wapiti (C. Canadensis) of North America 



WAPITI (Cervus Canadensis). 



are examples, are stoutly made animals, with horns 

 round, branched with antlers. 



Through the Asiatic Stags, in which the horns be- 

 come less and less considerable, including the beau- 

 tiful white-spotted Axis (C. Axis), we are led to the 



