734 , Flornless Ruminants. 
the province of Hanover, and Letzlingen in this neighborhood 
(province of Saxony). They are called by the people “büfe 
*flattkopfe’ (flatheads), ‘hermits,’ and perhaps by other populari 
names. The last name is derived from the former opinion ti 
know them from my own experience, these hornless deer at 
battue in the forest of Letzlingen on November 13, 1874 g 
was rising three years, judging by the teeth, but badly develope! | 
and very poor in venison; he had evidently been rutting, a | 
‘I preserved the skull. The“ Hornzapfen’—7.z., the bony 
cence on which the horns had to grow—in this case 
= 
Fic, 1.—Head of Hornless Stag. 
_ Pierced the skin, but were covered by hair. This varies, 
_ ever, in hornless Stags. I have another skull where the 
Most about hornless stags is the Koniglicher Forster 
p. Sh aaa aks. | gucner Oe 
Forsthaus Rothen, Gorde, province of Hanover. : 
