Tooters

Usage examples of horns.

The other walked on hooves, his face pushed out in a hairy muzzle, and goat horns stuck up above his ears.

Next came trumpeters, long, shining horns raised, still calling the flourish.

That man was there, somewhere in the mind picture that came from the wolves, but stronger by far was a massive, wild bull with curved horns of shining metal, running through the night with the speed and exuberance of youth, curly-haired coat gleaming in the moonlight, flinging himself in among Whitecloaks on their horses, with the air crisp and cold and dark, and blood so red on the horns, and .

He rose smoothly from one knee as the second toppled, horns almost brushing his shoulder.

He gave some of the horn players a second look, those with curled horns, but the instruments were all plain brass.

More crowded in at the door, black-mailed shapes with human faces distorted with muzzles and beaks and horns, oddly curved swords stabbing at Tam as he tried to struggle to his feet, spiked axes swinging, red blood on steel.

When the head is provided with horns they are skin deep only, without a core of bone, and they are always placed in the middle line of the skull, as in the rhinoceros.

The skull is very much elevated at the base, being somewhat of a pyramidal form, and the nasal bones curve upwards and downwards, and are of such a size and thickness, in order to support one or more immense horns, that they are quite unparalleled for their development in any other existing quadruped.

The horns describe a circle of about one and a quarter when viewed from the side, and point directly outwards.

Blanford wrote to the Society a few months later to the effect that he had examined a series of skins brought from Kashgar, and found that none possess a trace of a mane along the neck, as represented in a plate of the animal, there being some long hair behind the horns and a little between the shoulders, but none on the back of the neck.

The photograph is an excellent one of a magnificent head, and I should say if the measurements have been correctly made, that the horns are the longest, though not the thickest, on record.

The female darker coloured than the male, and may often be distinguished, when too far to see the horns, by the dark hue of the neck.

In young males, the horns at first resemble in direction and slight curvature those of the female, but they are always thicker at the base and distinctly triangular.

The male horns run from 25 to 35 inches, but larger have been recorded.

The females are redder, with shorter hair, short black beard, but no mane, and with small horns slightly twisted.