DEER. 



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The American deer are, however, still better distinguished from their Old 

 World cousins, by the characters of their antlers, which art either inThe form f 

 simple spikes or are divided in a fork-like manner, with the anterior ZoZ feted 

 forwards, and no brow-tine. These characteristic features are well "shown in Ine 



PROFILE VIEWS OP THE ANTLERS OF THE 

 MARSH-DEER (A), THE VIRGINIAN DEER 

 (/*), AND THE MULE-DEER (C). 



accompanying figures, from which 

 it will be seen that while in one 

 case the two prongs of the antler 

 may be nearly equally developed 

 {A), in another the anterior prong 

 (a) may be greatly developed at 

 the expense of the posterior (b), 

 as in the middle figure. It will 

 also be seen that there may be 

 either a large or small sub-basal 

 tine (c) rising from the inner side 

 of the front of the antler, some 



stbtaTalthT ^ bU ?;^ t 6Cted ^^^ Tt WaS W considered that this 



atten nts w ^T ^ W - tine ° f ^ ™ tl ™ ° f the 01d Worid deer, and 



the Zus r M C ^ d t tHe ° ther tineS ° f the AmeHcan deer *» ^ose of 



s a EvtT- . lkn ?° rd0n Camer ° n ^ h0Wever ' P° inted out that this 



totally er «,neou 8 notion ; the truth being, that while the members of the genus 



