190 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
The distance between the horns shows this. The spike-horns are about 
of the spike-horn buck is shorter than that on the other; the spike-horn 
was shot just as deer were attaining the ** blue coat;" the other was shot 
a month or six weeks later. This is the reason of the difference. 
Notwithstanding what Mr. Hays says, I never saw a yearling buck 
(that is a buck in his second year, wearing his first pair of horns) that 
could be said to have ‘attained full growth,” in ** height,” or anything 
else. I never saw a **two years old" (in his third year) that had attained 
full growth in all respects — itor yet “a three years old." "The saddle ie: a 
two years old will never exceed forty or fifty pounds in weight. I dou 
seventy pounds; and I have the head of one whose saddle weighed a little 
overeighty pounds. I have heard of bucks still heavier. Without the 
antlers, there may in some cases be difficulty in distinguishing between a 
two years old and a three years old; but there is never any difficulty in dis- 
tinguishing between either of these and a buck of six or seven years. ` Å 
yearling (in his second year) can always be known by his size. A buck 
in the spring, when he attains the full age of two years, never has horns, 
and has had none for some time. While his first pair of horns lasts surely 
he can never be said to have ** attained full growth” in any respect. Shot 
in the fall previous, his youth is very manifest. Me it is the first pair of 
horns only that are ever ** spikes" in a common C. inianus 
id Mr. Hayes. ever hunt south of Raquette ro or ever r south of 
Fulton counties, and west into Herkimer county and the *' idis tract." 
But I have visited the country north of Long Lake only o 
The writer in the ** Saginaw Republican" apparently s pet of deer. 
A yearling buck (in his second year, with his first pair of horns) has 
spike-shaped horns; but at the rutting season he is scárcely pes A 
months old, and is quite too young and small to be a rival of a full-grown 
buck, while a two years old buck (in his third year with his second pair 
of horns) has antlers which are scarcely more formidable weapons than 
the antlers of a full-grown buck. In point of fact I believe the full- 
grown bucks have altogether the advantage with the does.— ADIRONDACK. 
GEOLOGY. 
New ANIMAL REMAINS FROM THE CARBONIFEROUS AND DEVONIAN 
Rocks or CaNADA. — Principal Dawson has discovered another species 
of amphibian from the Joggins Coal Mine, the Baphetes minor ; the remains 
consisting of a lower jaw six inches long. The author also noticed some 
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