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NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 549 
vus, the females of which always have horns, though smaller than those 
of the male. eel instances are mentioned, however, of exceptions to 
this rule. Todd says: ** Among the females of the lower animals a simi- 
lar approach to bn male character in the general system not unfrequently 
Shows itself as an effect both of disease and malformation of the sexual 
organs, and also in consequence of the cessation of the powers of repro- 
duction in the course of advanced age. Female deer are sometimes ob- 
served to become provided, at puberty, with the horns of the stag, and 
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age, and, according to Burdach, when the doe has been kept from the 
Tine: and at the same time furnished with abundant nourishment. 
“In a kind mentioned by Mr. Hay, and which, he believed, had never 
produced any young, one of the ovaries, on dissection after death, was 
found to be scirrhous. The animal had one horn resembling that of a 
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was no horn on the ve side. Sion a number of instances where 
nt E derived from the antlers of his progenitors quite fail to be de- 
loped.” 
P have had an era f of studying four cases of this kind; one that 
of a Cervus Virginianus rated when young, has never developed a 
perfect pair of horns, the pie spike of the deer of eighteen months old 
has never been shed, the original velvet remaining upon it, and a succes- 
sion of points have been thrown out from the base until the appearance 
has become like that of two rosettes on his head. Two Wapiti deer that 
not otherw 
VERSA began to grow and have never been cast, the velvet has re- 
ned on ever since, while the form is very irregular and imperfect. Mr. 
oe G. Bell informs me that some years since he found a doe with horns as 
ge as those of a buck of two years 
I have in my collection the skull sin horns of a Wapiti that had been 
