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_ Stags, nor single-horned stags, are rare, I found, in 1883, am 
736 — Hornless Ruminants. 
generally soon „destroyed. In Behlen’s Forst und Jagdstih 
Subsequently the destruction of the hornless stags at Goll® 
Culiar variety, but then so are stags with only one horn,—in #7 
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Shedding of the horns. Some hornless stags have only 
dangerous to the normally horned stags in fighting. In none | 
the deer-forests were they found in any number, but appes 
here and there singly, seldom leaving any progeny, as they w 
for the year 1831 there is the following notice: ‘ Remark 
stags in Gohrde.—There have been observed of late years s 
with only one horn. The keepers and foresters assert that thsi 
single horns are shed annually, and that the animals show®) 
signs of infirmity.’ In the same year (1831) a hornless stag Wy 
killed in another forest (Evensen) near Hanover, which had ey 
dently been rutting hard. In July, 1832, a hornless stag, weg® © 
ing nearly two hundred kilogrammes, was killed in the shoot} 
of Graf Bernstorf, Gartow. This stag was first observed in tg 
rutting season 1829, with a herd of fifteen to eighteen hinds 
chasing the horned stags by striking at them with the fore 
In 1850 I found skulls of single-horned stags in several cole 
tions at Hanover, and heard from the royal foresters that tegi 
were more in Gohrde, and that this variety would be present 
was often contemplated, but, to my knowledge, was never“ 
estly carried out, for it was evident that the experiment WE 
not be of much use. Hornless stags are often regarded as 4 
there are so many individual variations of this kind, that 
impossible to draw a line between stags with and without 
in places where hornless stags have long existed. 
“In the Göhrde Forest, where neither ‘flat-heads,’ or hor 
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the forty-five stags killed at the royal battue, perhaps five “a 
warrantable stags, with fully-developed horns; twenty -five Oe 
sized and small, but with rather regularly-shaped horns; ee 
stag with only one fully-developed antler on one side ane í 
boss* on the other side; some heads with an antler of 
eveloped, and one boss projecting, more or less, throug: 
skin of the forehead. Then followed two perfect hornless # 
with bosses, but, of course, covered entirely with skin. ; 
other deer killed that day were several young stags W! 
flat r udiments of bosses, which are not visible until the § 
stripped of its skin. ove 
: In German, Hornzapfen or Rosenstads 
