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log. Generale,' 1841, p. 513. Other masculine
characters, besides the horns, are sometimes
similarly transferred to the female; thus Mr.
Boner, in speaking of an old female chamois
('Chamois Hunting in the Mountains of Bavaria,'
1860, 2nd ed., p. 363), says, "not only was
the head very male-looking, but along the back
there was a ridge of long hair, usually to be
found only in bucks.") Moreover the females of
some other species of deer exhibit, either normally
or occasionally, rudiments of horns; thus
the female of Cervulus moschatus has "bristly
tufts, ending in a knob, instead of a horn"; and
"in most specimens of the female wapiti (Cervus
canadensis) there is a sharp bony protuberance
in the place of the horn." (10. On the Cervulus,
Dr. Gray, 'Catalogue of Mammalia in the
British Museum,' part iii. p. 220. On the Cervus
canadensis or wapiti, see Hon. J.D. Caton, 'Ottawa
Academy of Nat. Sciences,' May 1868, p.
9.) From these several considerations we may
conclude that the possession of fairly well-