. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. Marsh-Deer below the hock and knee, in advance of which the extremities are white, and the black streak on the nose is wanting. The young are not spotted. This deer has never been exhibited in the London Zoological Gardens, although a specimen was living in the menagerie at Berlin in 1896. I have never seen a fully adult example, and the species is best known to me. Fig. 74.—Young Marsh-Deer. From a photograph by the Duchess of Bedford. by an immature mounted specimen at
. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. Marsh-Deer below the hock and knee, in advance of which the extremities are white, and the black streak on the nose is wanting. The young are not spotted. This deer has never been exhibited in the London Zoological Gardens, although a specimen was living in the menagerie at Berlin in 1896. I have never seen a fully adult example, and the species is best known to me. Fig. 74.—Young Marsh-Deer. From a photograph by the Duchess of Bedford. by an immature mounted specimen at Woburn Abbey, and the equally young examples forming the subject of Fig. 74. It is somewhat curious to note that the coloration of this species is almost identical with that of the so-called maned wolf [Cams jubatus) of the same districts. Although ten is the normal number of their points, the antlers of this species are liable to " sport" in an extraordinary degree ; specimens as complex as the one represented in Fig. 75 being by no means uncommon. The following dimensions of antlers are taken from Mr. Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game :—. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915. London, R. Ward, limited
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