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3. CiERVtrLtrs Reevesii. The Chinese Muntjac. -^ tmmnO 



Greyisn brown ; hair short, paler ringed. * 



Cervus Reevesii, Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1838, 105. — Prox Reevesii^ Wag- 

 ner, Sundev. Pecora, 62. — Cervulus Reevesii, Gray, Knows. Men. 65. 



Inhabits China. 



Mr. Ogilby observes, this species has a longer head and tail than 

 the Common Indian Muntjac, also less red and more blue in the gene- 

 ral shades of colouring, and is readily distinguished by the want of 

 the white over the hoofs, which is so apparent in its congeners. The 

 fawn is spotted. 



The Earl of Derby has these three kinds at Knowsley ; but they 

 breed together, and it has hence become impossible to discriminate 

 the mules from the original species. 

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°,;#. The Capreoline Deer or Roes have rugose, very shortly 

 peduncled horns, without any basal snag or branch ; the first branch 

 arising some distance above the crown or burr ; the upper part is 

 more or less branched ; the muffle is broad and naked ; the suborbi- 

 tal gland and the pit in the skull are very small and shallow, except^ 

 in C. Pudu. Some species have a distinct tuft of hair on the outer side 

 of the metatarsus, and more have the pencil of hair on the inner side 

 of the hock, and others are without either ; indeed in some specimens 

 of the same species the tuft of hair on the hinder legs is very visible, 

 in others very indistinctly or not at all seen. 



;//iuiB .wviM.\.CUPREOLUS, H. Smith; Caprcea, Ogilby .^oO is vbO 

 Horns nearly erect, small, cylindrical, slightly branched, with a 

 very short peduncle ; they have no tail, but a large, white anal disk, 

 a very indistinct tear-bag, and narrow triangular hoofs ; the tuft on 

 the hind-legs rather above the middle of the metatarsus ; they are 

 covered with thick brittle hair in winter, and thinner and more flexible 

 hair in the summer ; the adults are not spotted, and have a black spot 

 at the angle of the mouth ; the skull has a very small, shallow sub- 

 orbital pit. Found in Europe and North Asia. ^ 



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1. Capreolxjs Capr^ea. The Roebuck. .iCvm(\\?j. f^fU imd^ 

 Inside of the ears fulvous j summer, red brown ; winter, olive, palfe 



punctated; horns short. ' 



Caprcea, Plin.; Gesner. — Capreolus, Brisson. — Cervus capreolus, 

 liinn.; Pallas, Zool. Ross. A. i. 219. — Capreolus Caprcea, Gray, Cat. 

 Osteol. B. M. 64. — Capreolus Europceus, Sundev. Pecora, 61. — Roe 

 Buck, Penn. — Chevreuil and Chevrette, Buffon, H. N. vi. 198. 



Inhabits Europe. A larger variety is said to have formerly inha- 

 bited the Tyrol. ^ /' ,^!';r rfot!- vt >t 

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2. Capreolus pygargus. The Ahu. ' r 



Interior of the ears fulvous ; fur pale yellowish ; horns elongate. 



Cervus pygargus, Pallas, Reise, i. 97, 198, 433. ii. 159 ; Spic. xii. 7 

 (not Hardwicke) ; Schreb. Saugth. v. t. 253. — C. capreolus ft, Pallas, 

 Zool. Ross. Asiat. i. 219. — Cervus Ahu, Gmelin, Reis. iii. 496. t, 56 ; 



