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Title: The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct
Identifier: deerofalllandshi00lyde (find matches)
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915
Subjects: Deer; Deer, Fossil; Cervidae; Cervidae, Fossil
Publisher: London, R. Ward, limited
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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Characters 53 the withers varying from 5 feet 9 inches to 6 feet 6 inches.1 Antlers with a very short beam and the palmation so developed as frequently to obliterate almost all traces of the primitive form, with the exception of a remnant of the cleft of the first fork. Nasal bones of skull extremely short, and the premaxillas not extending sufficiently far upwards on the front edges of the maxilla? to articulate with the nasals. Hair long, coarse, and rather brittle, longest about the neck. General colour varying from yellowish gray to deep blackish brown, generally darker in American than in European
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Fig. 11.—Upper view ot Skull and Antlers of Elk. From an American specimen in the possession of the Duke of Westminster. This appears to be the largest on record, the maximum span being 6 feet ii inches. examples ; lower portion of limbs whitish ; forehead dark chestnut ; face below the eyes nearly black, but reddish gray near the muzzle. The winter coat, which in America first makes its appearance in September, is darker than the summer pelage ; and it is when first assumed that it is darkest, its colour gradually fading till the spring change. More- over, it is only in animals of the second or third year that the winter coat attains its deepest sable, growing gradually lighter each succeeding year, 1 The late Prof. Garrod, CasseWs Natural History, vol. iii. p. 51, gives the height at 8 feet; the tallest specimen definitely recorded is a Canadian one shot by General R. S. Dashwood, which measured 6), ft.

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