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THE DEER OF AMERICA. 



form. These horns are all regular in two or three typical forms. 

 They have almost always one brow antler, broad and palmated 

 over the eye, the other corresponding antler round. A second 

 brow antler fronting forwai'd, a few inches above this, and the 

 main shaft of the horn turned forward, more or less palmated, 



Male Caribou Antlers. 



and with more or less tines, all coming from the back or convex 

 surface of the horn. I possess a pair of horns in which the two 

 brow antlers are symmetrical, resembling clasped hands over the 

 forehead. I possess another pair of small horns, with one single 

 brow antler, and but one tine from a scarcely palmated horn. 



