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why this should he so, but such appears to be the experience of 

 both English and German sportsmen who have devoted them- 

 selves to the pursuit of these animals. It may be due indirectly 



Fig. 4. 



Fig. 5. 



to the different habits of the two species ; for as an abnormal 

 growth of horn must be occasioned either by disease or by direct 



Fig. 6. 



Fig. 7. 



injury to the horn itself while still soft, or " in the velvet," as it 

 is technically termed, it would follow that the species whose 

 habits would be most likely to subject it to accident would most 



