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SOME few months ago I received a consignment of skulls of antelopes from West Africa, the specimens having been shot by the late Lieut. R. H. McCorquodale, 3rd Dragoon Guards, and on opening the cases I was much struck by the appearance of the horns; all, without exception, were infested by singular thin finger-like protuberances which seemed to grow from the horn, leading me at a first impression to the immediate conclusion that they were some species of fungi; on a nearer inspection I found them to be cocoons, and not having seen anything like them before I looked into what literature I could find on the subject.
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MCCORQUODALE, W. Horn-Feeding Larvæ. Nature 58, 140–141 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058140a0
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