Archive image from page 32 of The deer of all lands;. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct deerofalllandshi00lyde Year: 1898 Antlers 9 record of their antler-development is quoted by Mr. Gordon Cameron :— ' One of the stags continued to improve till he was nine years old, after which he remained stationary till fifteen, when he became diseased and was shot. Two of them went on improving till they were eleven years old, and then remained stationary till they were sixteen, when they became diseased and were shot ; the fourth went on improving till he was th
Archive image from page 32 of The deer of all lands;. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct deerofalllandshi00lyde Year: 1898 Antlers 9 record of their antler-development is quoted by Mr. Gordon Cameron :— ' One of the stags continued to improve till he was nine years old, after which he remained stationary till fifteen, when he became diseased and was shot. Two of them went on improving till they were eleven years old, and then remained stationary till they were sixteen, when they became diseased and were shot ; the fourth went on improving till he was thirteen years old, when he was killed in a fight.' Peculiarities in antlers are reproduced year after year in the same stag with remarkable regularity ; red deer or wapiti with badly formed brow- Fig. 3.—Antler of Caspian Red Deer, from a Hungarian specimen in the collection of Viscount Powerscourt. Counting from the skull upwards, the first tine is the brow, the second the bez, and the third the trez, above which come the surroyals, or crown. tines, or fallow deer with an extra tine, reproducing such singularities with extreme constancy. This, among many other more convincing reasons, indicates the importance of antlers as a basis of classification of the deer tribe. And although these appendages were to a certain extent put in the background by the late Sir Victor Brooke, Mr. A. Gordon Cameron seems to have successfully proved that they have the right to a very fore- most place in the scheme of classification. As they are the most easily recognised feature in a deer's organisation, their adoption as a basis of c
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