736 General Notes. [July, 
case as in this, the injury was to both alike and doubtless at the 
same time. 
Evidence of a serious injury to this deer is not wanting, even 
in these photographs. In the side view we distinctly see a pro- 
nounced disfigurement in the nose or face below the eyes, or 
what we call in a horse a Roman nose. Now this never occurs 
naturally in any- of the deer family, and so we may safely con- 
clude that this deer had suffered serious violence in or about 
the head, and this I think the most probable explanation of the 
cause of these abnormal growths of the antlers. 
This deer must have belonged to one of two species of deer. 
The Virginia deer is the most common species in that part 0 
Antlers of a deer shot in Texas. 
Texas where this deer was found. The mule deer is occasions 
met with in Texas, though its occurrence is not very COU 
If the ears were small, the tail flattish and of a lanceolate form, 
covered with white hairs on the under side and edges, ype 
naked black portion, covered with the reversed hairs eae’ ps 
lay the metatarsal gland on the outside of the hind pit of 
much more than one inch long and surrounded uy fe ommon 
white hairs, then we should know certainly that it sep LN deer in 
tail round and 
hairs except 
