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horns, and they rarely have canine teeth; and
these, when present, are always of small size,
so that it is doubtful whether they are of any
service in their battles. In Antilope montana
they exist only as rudiments in the young male,
disappearing as he grows old; and they are
absent in the female at all ages; but the females
of certain other antelopes and of certain deer
have been known occasionally to exhibit rudiments
of these teeth. (32. See Ruppell (in 'Proc.
Zoolog. Soc.' Jan. 12, 1836, p. 3) on the canines
in deer and antelopes, with a note by Mr. Martin
on a female American deer. See also Falconer
('Palaeont. Memoirs and Notes,' vol. i. 1868,
p. 576) on canines in an adult female deer. In
old males of the musk-deer the canines (Pallas,
'Spic. Zoolog.' fasc. xiii. 1779, p. 18) sometimes
grow to the length of three inches, whilst in old
females a rudiment projects scarcely half an
inch above the gums.) Stallions have small canine
teeth, which are either quite absent or rudimentary
in the mare; but they do not appear