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ox AliXOUJIAL AXTLE1?,S OV A C^AIUBOU. 



in front of the normal antler, which carried a single anterior basal 

 tine, and separated from it by a strip of hairy skin. There was a 

 slight burr on a, level with the skin, but no pedicle. It had the 

 appearance as if it could be shed in the same manner as the 

 normal antlers. 



Text-fiiT. 52. 



Head of a Caribou (Banr/ifer tarandus caribou) with abnormal antlers. 



A very fine head of an Eland {Taurotragus derhianus gigas) 

 obtained by Major Gordon on the Bahr-el-Ghazel, and three fine 

 heads of White-tailed Deer (Borcelaphus aniericanas macrurics) 

 Avere also exhibited, one pair of antlers being abnoiinal. 



