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the horns is directly the reverse of that of any other 
palmated-horned animal I ever remember to have seen ; 
as the Moose, the English Fallow-deer, and to the best 
of my recollection the Europe-Asiatic Reindeer. In 
both the former of these animals, the broad palms form 
the extreme upper tips; while the lower spurs and brow 
antlers are round prongs; and, to the best of my mem- 
ory, the Reindeer has no very conspicuous palms at all. 
In our common deer, again, contrary to any other 
deer I have ever seen—except a very noble nondescript 
specimen recently sent from Calcutta to the Spirit of 
the Times—the main branch of the antlers curves for- 
ward over the brow, offering the main defenses, the true 
brow antlers being mere erect prongs; while all the 
tines are posterior to the main branch. 
In the American Elk, and in the British Stag, or Red- 
deer, and in all other round-horned deer I ever saw, the 
main antlers rise erectly, with a slight backward curve, 
the brow antler and all the other tines springing from 
it anteriorly, and forming the true weapons for the ani- 
mal’s defense. 
The Cariboo, therefore, presents a curious combination 
of the round-horned and palmated-horned deer, in the 
first instance ; and of the usual, and Anjierican, round- 
horn structure, in the second. First, it has the round, 
pointed tips and sharp, round prongs of the round-horned 
deer above, with the flat, leaflike blades of the pal- 
mated-horned deer below. And, secondly, it has the 
