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perhaps be termed palmated, but the pomts are very long and tl^ 

 pahnations narrow ; it is from the neighbourhood o Katrmeho m 

 ?n Sodermanland. Text-fig. 75 (p. 357) displays on the right antler 

 a narrow posterior palmation, with three long pomts, and a still 

 narrower anterior palmation with two points. The left antler 

 has the ,same number of points, but is rather more "cervine m 



Text-fig. 73. 



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Antlers, of "cervine" type, of adult Elk Ironi Kruseiiberg, Upland. 



Text-fis"-. 74. 



Antlers, of intermediate type, of young Elk from Katrineholm, Sodermanland. 



appearance. This specimen is from Yretstorp in Nerike. Text- 

 fio-. 76 (p. 357) is still more interesting, because while the right 

 antler is palmated, although not much so, and cai-ries rather long 

 tines — three on the posterior palmation and one antei-iorly, — the 

 left antler is perfectly " cervine," with three long rounded tines and 

 no palmation. This Elk was shot in Vestmanland at Fellingsbro. 

 Another pair that I have seen does not properly belong to any 

 of these types, since the left antler is anomalous, and shows a 

 tendency to what Nitsche' calls " Stangentheilung." It affords, 

 however, a further proof of the great variability of elk-antlers. 



1 Studien iiber Hirsclie, Hft. i. (Leipzig, 1898). 



