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Title: A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of Geology and Palæontology in the British Museum (Natural History) ..
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Geology Woodward, Henry, 1832-1921
Subjects: Mammals, Fossil Birds, Fossil
Publisher: [London] Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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amelus, are found inTertiary deposits. * OssemeH3 Fossiles. Darmstadt, pt. 5, pi. xxiii. A.t Pad-footed animals.(1876) e 50 Artiodactyla—The Deer-tribe. True Ruminants. True Ruminants. Cervidse,Deer-tribe. Pier-case,No. 15. Under this sub-division is placed the second group ofhoofed Artiodactyle quadrupeds, the true Ruminants, animalsthat chew the cud, as the ox and deer-tribes. They are characterised by the outer toes being rudimentaryor absent: they have no teeth in the front part of the upperjaw; they possess a complex stomach with four compartments;the males usually possess either horns or antlers. The group embraces many extinct genera and also extinctspecies belonging to existing genera. Family—The Cervim (Deer-tribe).—The Gervidce or Deer-tribe are characterised by possessing antlers which differ re-markably from the horns of Oxen or Antelopes. Antlers areoutgrowths of true bone, covered during their growth withvascular sensitive integument coated with short hair. In this

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Fig. 60.—Antlers of drvida (Deer-tribe). A, Antler of Cervulv.s (?) dlcranoceros (Kaup),Pliocene. B, Antler of Cervus pardinensis (Croizet & Jobert), Pliocene. C, Antler ofthe Red Deer C. elaphus (Linn.), in the second year. D, Antler of Red Deer in its full-grown condition. E, Antler and bony pedicle of the frontal bone of the Muntjak,Cervulus muntjak (Zimm.). F, Antler of the Fallow Deer Cervus dania (Linn). state they remain permanently in the Giraffe, but in the trueGervidce, or Deer, when the growth of the antler is complete,the supply of blood to it ceases, the skin dies and peels off,leaving the bone bare and insensible, and after a time, by aprocess of absorption near the base, it becomes detachedfrom the skull and is shed. A more or less elongatedportion or pedicle always remains on the skull, from thesummit of which a new antler is developed. This process is Artiodactyla—The Beer-tribe. 51 repeated with great regularity at the same period of eachyear.* In young anima

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