. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. Characters 235 in the structure of the vomer and the lateral metacarpal bones must be admitted ; but the backward production of the former bone in the American deer may probably be regarded as a specialised feature, and, as already said, I attach only minor importance to the lateral metacarpals. All who have seen the animal alive can scarcely fail to recognise how unlike it is, both in appearance and gait, to all the Old World deer of the present epoch ; and it. Fig. 64.
. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct. Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil. Characters 235 in the structure of the vomer and the lateral metacarpal bones must be admitted ; but the backward production of the former bone in the American deer may probably be regarded as a specialised feature, and, as already said, I attach only minor importance to the lateral metacarpals. All who have seen the animal alive can scarcely fail to recognise how unlike it is, both in appearance and gait, to all the Old World deer of the present epoch ; and it. Fig. 64.—Five successive pairs of Antlers of a Pcre David's Milou Deer at Woburn Abbey. In 1897 this stag shed its antlers twice. Since the last pair photographed, it shed a pair like those of the second year, and by Christmas had grown a new pair like the last pair in the figure. Photographed by the Duchess of Bedford. is probably more or less intimately related to the following extinct genus, which there seems good reason for regarding as also related to the ancestral stock of the modern American deer. To some of the latter the present genus approximates by the unusual length of its tail. Its geographical distribution also harmonises with its apparent affinity to the American deer, a large number of animals from North-Eastern Asia being more or less closely related to North American types. Distribution.—The eastern portion of the Eastern Holarctic 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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