. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. TyP£S OF ANTLERS. 49 compai-ison with those in wliich tlicy are partii-ularly complex, l)Oth methods as they ought to ilo, leading to the same result. There are Deer—as, for example, the American Brockets, David's Dem-, and Reeves' Muntjac—in which the antler is never more than a simple dag, like that of the "Brocket" stage in the Red Deer. There are others witli never more than a single tyne besides the beam, as instances of which may be mentioned the Indian Muntjac and the Huamel. Others, again—ami these form an important secti
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. TyP£S OF ANTLERS. 49 compai-ison with those in wliich tlicy are partii-ularly complex, l)Oth methods as they ought to ilo, leading to the same result. There are Deer—as, for example, the American Brockets, David's Dem-, and Reeves' Muntjac—in which the antler is never more than a simple dag, like that of the "Brocket" stage in the Red Deer. There are others witli never more than a single tyne besides the beam, as instances of which may be mentioned the Indian Muntjac and the Huamel. Others, again—ami these form an important section of the family—ai-e triply branched, as in the Spayad, the beam bifurcating some distance above the brow-antler. As instaitces of these we find the Sambur Deer of India, with its hn-ge and simple antlers; the closely-allied Javan and Swinhoe's Deer; the Spotted Axis; the Hog Deer, and the Roebuck. We have now arrived at the stage in which the beam has bifurcated, and almost all the more elaboi'ate forms resnlt from an excess in the development of both, or one or other, of the limbs of this bifurcation. In the Deer known as Elaphine—because they more or less resemble the Red Deer (Cervus elaphus)—the front of these two branches (the " tres") does not increase or be- ^ come complicated, whilst from the much-enlarged hind one the numerous sur-royals spring in the biggest species, such as the Wapiti, Cashmere, Red, and Barbary Deer, as well as the Maral, of " In the smaller species which follow this type of structure the sur-royals are less developed, at the same time that the brow-antler does not -split in two to form a " bez " as well, examples of which are to be seen in the Mantchurian, For- mosan, and Japanese Deer, as well as in the Fallow Deer and its newly-discovered ally from Mesopotamia. These two last-named ditier also in the " palmation " of their antlers—a peculiarity referi-ed to further in the special
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