Horniess Ruminants. 737 
Fic. 4.—Skull of a Horned Stag, after 
shedding the horns. 
from Mecklenburg, across the Elbe. In the royal forest 
ja deer have been breeding in and in for forty years, 
Jesa OS pave nevertheless well-developed horns, and Oberforster ` 
se, of Springe, told me that nota single hornless stag had 
tved during all that time.” 
penn musk deer, smaller than the roebuck, differ from the 
on character of deer in having no horns in either sex. “To 
Pensate the want of horns” the males have two long and 
~~ canine teeth, which project from the jaw like elephants’ 
istera oP that they curve inwards, In this tribe the canines, 
a being arrested in their embryo stage, as in the other 
nits Ruminants, gain full development. The musk-deer 
$ moschiferus) are natives of Thibet and Nepaul. 
XXIL—No, 8, 50 
