Identifier: westernfield61905olym (find matches)
Title: Western field
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Olympic Club (San Francisco, Calif.) California Game and Fish Protective Associations
Subjects: Olympic Club (San Francisco, Calif.) California Game and Fish Protectice Associations Sports
Publisher: San Francisco
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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e of thebrain-mass when the specimen was collected. What caused the deformity of the bill inthe pheasant (Fig. 2)1 am unable to say, asI have not had the opportunity to examinethe bird. I am told however, that the speci-men was fat and well nourished at the timeit was shot, so it probably met with no in-convenience in feeding. Perhaps the apexof the upper mandible may have been shotaway some time, or otherwise injured and insuch a manner that the horny sheath, ortheca, covering it grew out beyond the lowerbill or mandible, in the manner shown inthe cut. I can very easily conceive how thiscould come about. This pheasant is nowquite common in Oregon, Washington andthe surrounding region, having been intro-duced there some years ago. The specimenshown in Figure 2 was shot at Wassenaarin the royal grounds of the downs near theNorth Sea coast not far from i^eyden. Polydactylism, or multiplicity of fingersand toes, as well as supernumerary limbs isjust as likely to occur in any of the lower
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PHEASANT WITH DEFORMED BTLL.. TEE PACIFIC COAST MAGAZINE 153 vertebrates as it is in man. Cats, dogs andpigs have frequently exhibited this conditionand cats have been born with extra limbs.Pigs and deer have also existed wherein thehoofs were solid, or in other words the un-gual digits of the fore or hind toes, or both,were indistinguishably amalgamated. Whilein New Mexico many years ago, I had theopportunity to observe several examples ofthe famous polycerate or multiple hornedsheep. Accounts of them were published byme in some of the magazines of the day.These sheep sometimes had four horns, ormore rarely eight, but they always grew inpairs and always sprang from the frontalhone. Darwin in his Origin of Species payssome attention to such peculiarities. As inthe case of double-headed children, I havemet with instances of double-headed fish(trout), toads, snakes, turtles, lizards (An-olis), grouse, chickens, ducks, antelope,calves and lambs, and not a few other mam-mals and represent

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