CONGENERS. 



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may be supposed, although we may be uuable to recognize these 

 causes with certainty. 



The most remarkable difference, besides the size, is in the 

 longer tail of the Stag, the partial obliteration of the white sec- 

 tion on the rump on many of the individuals, and on others the 

 presence of a line of spots along the flanks on either side of the 

 dorsal line, similar to those which I have mentioned as sometimes 



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Red Deer or Stag of Europe. 



observed on the common deer, though more distinct and more 

 persistent, I observed these spots only on a very few of the Red 

 Deer. 



In size the antlers vary much on different individuals of both 

 species, but I judge they would average about the same in pro- 

 portion to the size of the animals. There are some characteris- 



