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Title: The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) NCRS Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
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r edge dentelated. After a certain age itshrinks, and splits irregularly into several slips.This species, the Platyceros of the ancients, has be-come common throughout Europe, but appears tohave been originally from Barbary. A blackish varietywithout spots [even in the fawns] is not unconnnon.Tlie species with round antlers are more nume-rous. Those of temperate climates change colour,more or less, with the seasons. The Common Stag, or Red Deer (C. elephas,Lin.).—Fulvous-brown, with a black dorsal line,and on each side of it a series of small pale fulvousspots, in summer; imiform greyish-brown in win-ter : the crupper and tail pale fulvous at all seasons.It is indigenous to the forests of all Europe, andof the temperate parts of Asia. The antlers ofthe male are round, and appear in the second year,i.tf. ^-itcU Uccr. at first dagger-shaped, and then with branches on inner side, which increase in number with age; they are crowned finally with a sort of paimation, having F chese aaimnU
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Tlicrc is (he liead of a fem»le Roc, with antlers in the Museum of instance is Roval CoUece of SurKeoiii. London. The c oODtxiuD of these of a three cnccs, huwrver, with the sexaal orenns is rem arkablc. They do side vras f gruw in cmaacuUlcd iiidividualu ; aiid the ru tin^ iteasoD imiiie- dcvelopeui ely fallows their dcvelopement. In Lin. Tra* 1. vol.ii. p. 356, on each sucie 138 MAMMALIA. many points. NATien very old, the Stag becomes blackish, and the hairs on the neck lengthen and become erect. Theantlers are shed in sprina:, the old ones losing them first; and are reproduced in summer, during the whole ofwhicli period the males associate separately. When they are ffrown again, the rutting season commences, whichlasts three weeks, at which time the males become furious. Both sexes unite in vast herds to pass the winter.The hind carries eight months, and brings forth in May ; the fawn is fulvous, spotted with white. The Canadian Stag, or TTapiti; Elk of the Anglo-Americans (C. can
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