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often unite in troops more or less numerous ; first 

 swallowing a large quantity of food' without chew- 

 ing, which rests for a time in the first stomach, 

 from whence it is forced into the mouth during 

 repose, to undergo tlie process of chewing, (their 

 jaws acting laterally,) and then to pass into the 

 second stomach. 



Inhabit nearly the whole globe. None have as 

 yet been discovered in New^ Holland. 



Second division; ruminants having either hollow 

 horns, or osseous and deciduous, at least in the 

 male sex. 



1. Tribe. 



Osseous horns, ordinarily branched, deciduous, 

 reproduced every year larger than the year pre- 

 ceding, always existing on the head of males, and 

 occasionallv on the head of females. 



Genus. 

 Cervus, Briss. Linn. Erxleb. Bodd. Cuv. Illig. 



CHABACT£BS. 



r Incisor 0. 

 Tsuperior 12 or 14. < Canine or2 



Dental formula.— Teeth 32 or 34. J CMolar 12. 



I C Incisor 8. 



l^inferior 20. < Canine 0. 



C Molar 12, 



Superior canine in the males of several species, 

 commonly compressed, and curved backwards likf* 

 those of the Musk Deer. 



