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snags or branches"; and at Moritzburg there is<br />

still preserved a pair <strong>of</strong> antlers <strong>of</strong> a red-deer,<br />

shot in 1699 by Frederick I., one <strong>of</strong> which bears<br />

the astonishing number <strong>of</strong> thirty-three branches<br />

and the other twenty-seven, making altogether<br />

sixty branches. Richardson figures a pair <strong>of</strong><br />

antlers <strong>of</strong> the wild reindeer with twenty-nine<br />

points. (24. On the horns <strong>of</strong> red-deer, Owen,<br />

'British Fossil Mammals,' 1846, p. 478; Richardson<br />

on the horns <strong>of</strong> the reindeer, 'Fauna Bor.<br />

Americana,' 1829, p. 240. I am indebted to Pr<strong>of</strong>.<br />

Victor Carus, for the Moritzburg case.) From<br />

the manner in which the horns are branched,<br />

and more especially from deer being known<br />

occasionally to fight together by kicking with<br />

their fore- feet (25. Hon. J.D. Caton ('Ottawa<br />

Acad. <strong>of</strong> Nat. Science,' May 1868, p. 9) says that<br />

the American deer fight with their fore-feet,<br />

after "the question <strong>of</strong> superiority has been once<br />

settled and acknowledged in the herd." Bailly,<br />

'Sur l'Usage des cornes,' 'Annales des Sciences<br />

Nat.' tom. ii. 1824, p. 371.), M. Bailly actually

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