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STAGS. 
We now come to what maybe considered the true 
Stags, where palmation or flattening of the horns 
lias ceased. Hamilton Smitli lias placed these ani- 
mals in a subgenus Elaphus, to which he has given 
the character of “ Horns round ; three antlers turn- 
ed to the front ; summit terminating in a fork or in 
snags from a common centre ; suborbital sinus ; ca- 
nine teeth in the males ; a muzzle.” It is to this 
small group that the European Stag belongs, repre- 
sented on the Vignette ; but tve shall illustrate the 
form by 
