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swallowing large-sized prey, during which time the mouth 
and throat. are stretched to their utmost capacity, and then 
he May see the trachea projecting a full inch in the larger kinds. 
20 chap, vil of my work on “ Snakes” I have entered more fully 
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> fen him, when there may be further observations to record. 
. herine C. Hopley. 
ORMAL DEER ANTLERS FROM Texas.—The accompanying 
An Phs of the skull and antlers of a deer were sent me from 
ntonio, Texas, by Dr. Mortimor Slocum, with the informa- 
the deer was killed by a hunter named Havey, on the 
Went St, while the velvet was yet on the antlers ; that the deer 
with antl : pounds, and that a companion was with the deer 
teen inch, Precisely the same as these. These antlers are four- 
ateach of. long, and eight and a quarter broad, with seven points 
Sum of the the ends, and both are very much alike. This is the 
m re € information given me of these remarkable antlers, and 
These sted to classify the deer specifically. 7 
antlers are now in the collection of Mr. Dosch of San 
