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species has a dark irou-grey pelage, and the late Mr. Consul 

 Swinhoe described it as very Goat- like in aspect. 



Capreoliis. — The Roe Deer has fairly complex antlers. It is 

 a small Deer and has spotted young. The common Eoe Deer, 

 C. caprara, is a native of this country. It is the smallest of our 

 Deer, and its antlers only have three tines in stags of the third 

 year. It is a singular fact alxtut this Deer that though the pair- 

 ing season is in July and August, the young are not born until 

 the following ]\Iay or June, a period which does not represent 

 that of gestation. The germ remains dormant for some time 

 ])efore developing. 



The Muutjacs, Cervulioi, form a distinct generic type confined 

 to the Indian and the South-Eastern I'alaearctic region. They 



Fig. 153. — Mnle Deer. Cariaciis macrotis. x ,\. (From Ndlnrc.) 



are small Deer with spotted young, and short one-branched antlers 

 placed upon pedicels as long as themselves. The canines are 

 strongly developed in the males. There are about half-a-dozen 

 species. 



Cariacus is exclusively American in range, and contains about 

 twenty species. There are or are not upper canines. The young 



