Archive image from page 141 of The deer of all lands;. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct deerofalllandshi00lyde Year: 1898 106 Elaphine Group beam curves inwards and gives out an anterior (fourth) tine which is much the largest of all, and slightly compressed, being only a little shorter, and scarcely smaller, than the beam itself. Above this the beam gives out two other tines, each successively diminishing in length, and all these four branches, that is, the beam itself and the three upper tines, are in nearly Fig. 27.—Altai Wapiti at Wbburn Abbey.
Archive image from page 141 of The deer of all lands;. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct deerofalllandshi00lyde Year: 1898 106 Elaphine Group beam curves inwards and gives out an anterior (fourth) tine which is much the largest of all, and slightly compressed, being only a little shorter, and scarcely smaller, than the beam itself. Above this the beam gives out two other tines, each successively diminishing in length, and all these four branches, that is, the beam itself and the three upper tines, are in nearly Fig. 27.—Altai Wapiti at Wbburn Abbey. Photographed by the Duchess of Bedford. the same plane, so that by looking at the horn with either the beam or the great fourth tine in front, the remainder of the crown can be concealed behind either one or the other. ... It appears to me that, as regards the horns, the Thian-Shan stag approaches the wapiti more than any Asiatic deer. The resemblance between the Asiatic stags and Cervus canadensis has been discussed by many naturalists, and by none more fully than by Mr. Blvth, who has pointed out that the most important characters in which
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