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have belonged to some young animals of the species of the rein-deer, 
before they had acquired their characteristic palm. 
These horns are distinguishable by their being very small, thin, and 
rather flat ; and by their giving off, at a little distance from their base, 
one or two antlers on their fore part. From a variation in this last 
circumstance, depending very probably on a difference in the age of 
the animal, these horns may be divided into two sorts. 
In the one, at about two inches above the coronet, an isolated antler 
is given off forwards; and then the beam itself, which is but little larger 
than this antler, turns backwards, to be again divided, or at least to give 
off a second antler on its posterior part. A specimen of this sort, from 
Etampes, which I purchased from the collection of Mr. Strange, and 
which bears the description of “ A fossil horn of an animal unknown 
to Dr. Hunter is represented Plate XX. Fig. 3 ; the dotted lines, in 
continuation, showing the manner in which the second antler was 
given off. In the other sort, two antlers are given off forwards, at 
about an inch from the base, and at a little distance from each other, 
the beam then passing backwards. It is worthy of notice, that although 
the root is nearly round, the beam immediately becomes flat; and this 
is particularly the case in the horns of the latter sort. 
That these are not the horns of young rein-deer is evident ; not 
merely from their not agreeing in all the characters of these horns, 
but from their having belonged to adult animals, whose epiphysis 
were in union with their bones. There is no animal of the old 
continent to which these bones can be referred, nor do we know 
that the analogue of this fossil animal is to be found on the new 
continent. 
In the quarries of Montabusard, in which it will be seen that two 
species of the genus P alceotherium and one of the genus Mastodon 
have been discovered, two fragments of the horns, and several portions 
of the jaws, which are not distinguishable from those of the common 
roebuck, have been found. This is a circumstance truly interesting, 
