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Show 356 DR. E. LONNBERG ON THE [Dec. 2, perhaps be termed palmated, but the points are very long and the palmations narrow ; it is from the neighbourhood of Katrineholm in Sodermanland. Text-fig. 75 (p. 357) displays on the right antler a narrow posterior palmation, with three long points, and a still narrower anterior palmation with two points. The left antler has the same number of points, but is rather more " cervine " in Text-fig. 73. Antlers, of " cervine" type, of adult Elk from Krusenberg, Upland. Text-fig. 74. Antlers, of intermediate type, of young Elk from Katrineholm, Sddermanland. appearance. This specimen is from Vretstorp in Nerike. Text-fig. 76 (p. 357) is still more interesting, because while the right antler is palmated, although not much so, and carries rather long tines--three on the posterior palmation and one anteriorly,-the left antler is perfectly " cervine," with three long rounded tines and no palmation. This Elk was shot in Vestmanland at Fellingsbro. Another pair that I have seen does not properly belong to any of these types, since the left antler is anomalous, and shows a tendency to what Nitsche1 calls " Stangentheilung." It affords, however, a further proof of the great variability of elk-antlers. 1 Studien iiber Hirsche, Hft. i. (Leipzig, 1898). |
