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though mainly for actual service in battle ; hut I have 
no evidence in favour of this belief. 
Fig. G2. Strepsiceros Kudu (from Andrew Smith’s ‘Zoology of South Afri-'^a’). 
An interesting case has lately been published, from 
which it appears that the horns of a deer in one district 
in the United States are now being modified through 
sexual and natural selection. A writer in an excellent 
