. The antelope and deer of America : a comprehensive treatise upon the natural history, including the characteristics, habits, affinities, and capacity for domestication of the Antilocapra and Cervidae of North America . Pronghorn; Deer; Mammals. 224 THE DEER OF AMERICA. Generally the antler of the Virginia Deer arises from the pedi- cel in the facial line spreading more or less to the basal snag. From that point it commences to curve upward and forward, and then downward and inward, till the extremities of the beams re- motely approach each other. This enables the animal by bow- ing his head
. The antelope and deer of America : a comprehensive treatise upon the natural history, including the characteristics, habits, affinities, and capacity for domestication of the Antilocapra and Cervidae of North America . Pronghorn; Deer; Mammals. 224 THE DEER OF AMERICA. Generally the antler of the Virginia Deer arises from the pedi- cel in the facial line spreading more or less to the basal snag. From that point it commences to curve upward and forward, and then downward and inward, till the extremities of the beams re- motely approach each other. This enables the animal by bow- ing his head in battle, as is his habit, to present the tines to the adversary in front. When two meet in the shock of battle thus armed, these antlers form so complete a shield that I have never known a point to reach an adversary, as will be seen when we. 24. Acapuico Deer. 25 and 26, Common Deer come to describe their mode of warfare. The basal snag starts about two inches above the burr and rises to the height of from two to five inches at an angle of from fifteen to thirty degrees to the beam. This snag is usually more covered with tubercles than the tines above, and on very large specimens from aged ani- mals is sometimes bifurcated, and sometimes flattened as in Fig. 26; sometimes a small supplemental snag occurs near the base, and I have occasionally observed one or more of the tubercles of the burr extend to snags an inch long. Usually from one to half a dozen tines occur on each antler, the lower ones being the longest and largest; on very large specimens some of these tines may produce snags, or a snag may arise from the beam at about the same point where a tine occurs. On the smaller specimens, the tines usually correspond on the two antlers on the same head, but as the animal grows older and the antlers larger this is less likely to be the case, though if one antler has an extraordinary. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been dig
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