. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. i ~o American Deer Dorcehphus hemtonus, Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. vol. vii. p. 257 (1895). Characters.—Build heavier and coarser than in the common American deer. Size somewhat larger than the Virginian race of the latter, the height at the shoulder reaching to 3 feet 3 or 4 inches. Antlers with a very short sub-basal snag, beyond which the beam is directed outwards for a short distance and then curves upwards to form a regularly dichotomous. Fig. 71.—Front view of Head of
. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. i ~o American Deer Dorcehphus hemtonus, Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. vol. vii. p. 257 (1895). Characters.—Build heavier and coarser than in the common American deer. Size somewhat larger than the Virginian race of the latter, the height at the shoulder reaching to 3 feet 3 or 4 inches. Antlers with a very short sub-basal snag, beyond which the beam is directed outwards for a short distance and then curves upwards to form a regularly dichotomous. Fig. 71.—Front view of Head of Mule-Dccr. From a specimen in the possession of Mr. E. S. Cameron. fork, of which both prongs are normally nearly equal, and again divide, the normal number of points thus being five on each side. Ears very large and thickly haired ; tail moderately long, terminating in a brush-like tuft of hair, naked on the under surface at the base ; muzzle rather short ; face-gland rather large. Metatarsal gland and tuft long and straight, occupying the whole of one side of the upper half of the outer surface of the cannon-bone, its hair nearly the same cinnamon tint as that of the leg, as is likewise that. 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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