The great and small game of India, Burma, & Tibet . imen of the swamp-deer, which, asalready mentioned, forms a kind of intermediate link in this respect, thethamin differs from all other deer by the peculiar curvature of the are cylindrical and very rugose, with the long and much arched brow-tine forming the continuation of the curve of the beam, which is set at rightangles to the pedicle ; consequently the entire antler is approximate bow-shaped. For the greater part of its length the beam remains undivided. The Thamin ^35 having at first a backwards, then an outwards, and fina
The great and small game of India, Burma, & Tibet . imen of the swamp-deer, which, asalready mentioned, forms a kind of intermediate link in this respect, thethamin differs from all other deer by the peculiar curvature of the are cylindrical and very rugose, with the long and much arched brow-tine forming the continuation of the curve of the beam, which is set at rightangles to the pedicle ; consequently the entire antler is approximate bow-shaped. For the greater part of its length the beam remains undivided. The Thamin ^35 having at first a backwards, then an outwards, and finally a forwardscurvature ; but towards its termination it is simply forked, each forkcorresponding to the main fork in typical antlers of the swamp-deer. Inold animals the outer tine of the terminal fork is larger and more complexthan the inner one ; the number of terminal points varying from as fewas two or three in a certain percentage of adults to at least eight or ten inmany stags. In this respect, however, there is considerable local variation. Fjo. 49.—Group of Burmese Thamin at Woburn Abbey. From a photograph by theDuchess of Bedford. in the species. In the typical Burmese thamin [Cervi/s cldi typicns)^ forexample, the antlers are cylindrical to their summits, with few or noadditional points on the prongs of the main fork, and a very long brow-tine. On the other hand, in the Siamese thamin (C eicH platyceros) thefront or larger branch of the main fork is considerably flattened, and carriesa large number of snags on its sharp hinder edge, and the brow-tine isrelatively shorter. It is in this race that the antlers make such a remark-ably close approximation to Major Woods abnormal specimen of theswamp-deer. In both races one or more prominent snags are usually 236 Great and Small Game of India, etc. developed at the point of junction between the brow-tine and the beam,that is to say, immediately above the pedicle ; and it is a very generalfeature of the species that the a
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