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Adirondack cite from any park an example of such a one whose age is 
known with certainty? This would be to the Mike 
The explanation given by Mr. Hays s S to be a satisfactory one 
The idea that a new race of deer has Popes in et small district 
within the last few years out-Darwins Darwin. — CHARLES WRIGHT. 
A SPIKE-HORNED Moose. — Several instances of the capture of ** spike- 
horned" bucks of the common deer ( Cervus dg having been 
recently reported in the NATURALIST (Vol. mm, p. 552, Dec. 37 VoL IVS 
p. 188, May, 1870), interest has hence been awakened in oeil to this 
unusual condition of the antlers in the Cervide. A **spike-horned " 
moose, captured in Northern Maine by Mr. J. G. Rich, was recently re- 
ceived at the Museum of Comparative Z oology, of which the accompany- 
Fig. 93. 
Spike Horns of Moose. 
ing fizure (Fig. 93) correctly represents the form of the horns, as seen 
from the front. Mr. Rich writes me that full-grown moose having horns 
of this character are well-known to the moose hunters of Maine, by whom 
such animals are termed **spike-horns." Mr. Rich states this animal to 
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evidently a full-grown one. He says it is in believed by the hunters that 
these animals never shed their horns. The present specimen was taken 
late in March, nearly two months after the time when these animals 
usually cast their horns. — ALLEN. 
A New Insect PARASITE OF THE Beaver. — Herr Krisch has dis- 
Covered a parasite of the European beaver, which unites the flattened 
body of the lice, with the peculiarities of the fleas. By the presence of 
rudimentary wings it is nearest allied to the Diptera, and is named 
Paty castoris. — Proceedings of the Natural History Society Isis, in 
