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MOUSTACHE OF ROOSEVELT GIVES BARKING DEER NAME

To those familiar with the famous moustaches which adorned the lip of President Theodore Roosevelt, there is considerable humor in this completely serious statement by Dr. W. II. Osgood of the Field Museum in Chicago concerning the maniacs Roosevelt, or barking door, one of the new species found by the recent Coolidge-Roosevelt expedition to Indo China:

"A diagnostic character of the species muntiacus rooseveltorum and a feature of very great interest are the pair of highly developed glandular brushes on either side of the chin."

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