92 RECORDS OF BIG GAME 
The ROEBUCK (Capreolus caprea). 
(Also known as Capreolus capreolus.) 
Roebuck may be recognised by the rudimentary tail, and the medium- 
sized antlers rising close together and almost vertically from the head, 
without a brow-tine, and regularly forking at a point about two-thirds 
the total length, with the posterior prong again subdividing, so that 
the number of points is usually three. There is no gland or tuft on 
the hock, but one on the upper part of the outer side of the hind 
cannon-bone. In the European roe the height at the shoulder is 
about 26 inches. In winter the coat is dark speckly brown with a 
large white rump-patch, but in summer foxy red, with little or no 
white behind. As in the Japanese sika, the white hairs of the winter 
rump-patch expand under the influence of excitement to form a large 
disc. The range embraces the greater part of Europe as far as the 
southern Caucasus, Palestine, and perhaps Persia. 
Length on 
a ue = i de Saas Dp a Locality. Owner. 
13 4 145 Germany. : 5 . Viscount Powerscourt. 
13 4 144 Do. : ; F : Do. 
13 35 10} Do. : ‘ : ; Do. 
-13 63 SF Do. : ‘ : . H.R.H. the Duke of Saxe-Coburg 
and Gotha. 
-13 7 se) Do. : : : : Do. 
—13 64 8 Do. F : ; : Do. 
12} 3 8} Do. : : : . Viscount Powerscourt. 
124 4 ot Do. ; F ; : Do. 
124 4} 9 Senvig us : : ‘ Do. 
re 35 45 Austria = ; F . Lieut.-Col. J. Marriott. 
1_y21 ae ... Perthshire : ; . R. Moncrieff. 
-12°II 6°12 54 Hungary . ; : . Count Wenkheim. 
lig re 6 Monymusk, N.I. . Sir Arthur Grant, Bart. 
“r14 ate ... Orton, Speyside : . Sir G. Macpherson Grant, Bart. 
11s 3 8$ Germany . ; ; . Viscount Powerscourt. 
—113 6 6 Perth y : : . J. G. Millais. 
Tit 4 82 Servia . ; : . Viscount Powerscourt. 
-11k 42 eee OCOtlandis ; : . Duke of Bedford. 
— Owner’s measurements. 
land 2 Recorded by J. G. Millais (British Deer and their Horns). 
