. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders . Running Deer (from a photograph). his safety is threatened, the spindlelike legs areraised, there are a few graceful bounds rather thansteps over the intervening ferns and lichen-coveredstones, and the creature is gone. But in a swift runhe covers the ground like an india-rubber ball, touch-ing it only at every sixteen feet maybe. The beautiful antlers of the deer are shed and re-newed each year—the so-called spike horn, or ant-lers without any branches, belong to an animal about A FLEET-FOOTED NEIGHBOR IN THE WO
. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders . Running Deer (from a photograph). his safety is threatened, the spindlelike legs areraised, there are a few graceful bounds rather thansteps over the intervening ferns and lichen-coveredstones, and the creature is gone. But in a swift runhe covers the ground like an india-rubber ball, touch-ing it only at every sixteen feet maybe. The beautiful antlers of the deer are shed and re-newed each year—the so-called spike horn, or ant-lers without any branches, belong to an animal about A FLEET-FOOTED NEIGHBOR IN THE WOODS. 237 a year old. The two-branched horn belongs to adeer three years old, and so on. Very rarely indeeda female will develop a spike horn covered with vel-vet. This velvety covering of the antlers when they. The spike horn. Antlers four years old. Antlers three years old. first appear is a most remarkable part of the develop-ment of the horns. I quote in part what Dr. Mer-riam has to say regarding it: The new horns of adeer in the Adirondacks are first seen about the mid-dle of May ; they appear likesoft, dark-colored excrescenceswhich, as they rapidly elongate,harden from below the time the growth, whichis accomplished in about threemonths, is completed, all butthe tips is well ossified; thesoft, velvetlike skin now beginsto peel off in irregular shreds,and by the first or middle ofSeptember the horns are generally clean. This vel-vet does not come away of itself, but the animal rubs
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