The Zoology of North American Big Game 



and protruding canine teeth are developed in the 

 upper jaw, and the lateral metacarpal bones are 

 complete throughout their length, instead of being 

 represented by a mere remnant. They are the 

 smallest of ungulates, and inhabit only portions of 

 the Indo-Malayan region. Camels also have upper 

 canines, and the outer, upper incisors as well. 



The giraffe is separated from all living ungu- 

 lates by the primitive character of its so-called 

 "horns," which are not horns in the usual sense, 

 but simply bony prominences of the skull covered 

 with hair. Some of the earliest deer-like animals 

 seem to have had simple or slightly branched 

 antlers which were not shed, and which there is 

 reason to believe were also hairy, and in these, as 

 well as in other characters, giraffes and the early 

 deer may not have been far apart. The "okapi," 

 Sir Harry Johnston's late discovery in the 

 Uganda forests, seems to have come from the same 

 ancestral stock, but the giraffe has no other exist- 

 ing relatives. 



The true deer, to which we shall return, are 

 readily enough distinguished from the ox tribe and 

 its allies by their solid and more or less branched 

 antlers, usually confined to males, and periodically 

 shed. 



So, through this rapid survey, we have dropped 

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