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FIG. 14. HORNED ANIMALS. 



Weapons of Offence. Horns of various types furnish the most conspicuous of the 

 "secondary sexual characters" of the ruminants. In the Deer only are these 

 branched. In the "hollow -horned" ruminants they are either lance-like or 

 more or less spirally curved, or they may form more or less open loopi. 



1. Black-tailed Deer. 2. Hangul or Kashmir Barasingha Deer. 3. Greater Kudu. 

 4. Black-buck. 5. Saiga Antelope, remarkable also for its curiously swollen 

 nose. 6. Marco-Polo's Sheep. 



(From " The Courtship of Animals," by W. P. Pycroft. Explanation of numbers by 

 the courtesy of Rowland Ward, Ltd.) 



