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horn and seven on the other. The horns arc longitudinally channelled, 
most of the prongs inclining forward and upward, especially those nearest 
the roots of the main horn. All the horns ai'e large and round, with brow 
antlers. The weight of the horns on full grown animals, as we have as- 
certained by weighing about a dozen of large size, is from thirty to forty- 
five pounds. 
The three hindermost teeth in the upper jaw are double ; the remainder 
single. There are in the upper jaw of the male two very small canine 
teeth inclining forward almost on a line with the jaw. There is a short 
rudimentary mane on the fore-shoulder, and under the throat during the 
winter there are long black hairs. 
There is a space on the outer side of the hind legs covered by a tuft, 
which is of an irregular oval shape, of about one and a half inch in length, 
the hairs which cover it being an inch long, lying flat and backwards, wi th 
shorter hairs extending down the leg several inches below the space. 
The hairs on the body generally are very coarse, rather short ; longest 
on the back of the ham, where the whitish patch and the black line on the 
latter unite. 
The tail, which in summer is not bushy, is thinly clothed with hair run- 
ning to a point. A young male has its horns which are in velvet, nearly 
perpendicular, running but slightly backwards to the length of fourteen 
inches, where they divide into three short prongs. 
COLOUR. 
Male. 
Muzzle, nostrils, and hoofs, black ; head, dark brown ; neck, rather 
darker, being nearly black ; on each side of the under jaw there is a 
longitudinal white patch, between which there is a large black stripe 
extending along the lines of the under jaw, dividhig about four inches 
from the mouth, and continuing downward to the throat, where it unites 
again and is diffused in the general black colour of the throat and neck, 
leaving in its course a white space between the bone of the lower jaw, 
nearly as large as a man’s hand. 
There is no light-coloured ring, or space, around the eyes as in the Euro- 
pean red deer, but in the present species the .space around the socket of 
the eye is scarcely a shade lighter than the surrounding parts of the head. 
Under surface of the ear, yellowish white, with a hue of dark brown 
on the margin ; on the outer surface of the ear, there is a white patch 
about four inches in length and nearly two inches wide, covering about 
•a third of the ear, and running from near the root of the ear upwards at 
the lower edge 
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