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VOLUME XXXIII.— No. 7. 
NEW YORK, JULY, 1874.-. 
NEW SERIES— No. 330. 
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No animal presents greater contrasts than 
does the male deer at different seasons. In 
winter, after his horns have fallen, and in 
spring, while waiting for them to grow again, 
the buck presents a very different appearance 
from the same animal in autumn, when, with 
wide-spread antlers, and courageous bearing, 
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he is ready to do battle with his rival. At this 
season the bucks roam the forest in search of 
the does, and when two meet, a battle is likely 
to ensue. In these contests the horns of the 
bucks become sometimes so interlocked, that it 
is impossible for the animals to disengage, and 
death by starvation must follow. Iu the wilds 
Agriculturist. 
of Texas, we have frequently met with pairs 
of skulls with the horns thus entangled. When 
we consider that the horns will be shed natural- 
ly in a few months, the strength with which 
they hold to the skull is astonishing. Even 
the horns of three animals have been found 
fastened together, with, tho skulls attached- 
