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species has a dark iron-grey pelage, and the late Mr. Consul 
Swinhoe described it as very Goat-lke in aspect. 
Capreolus——The Roe Deer has fairly complex antlers. It is 
a small Deer and has spotted young. The common Roe Deer, 
C. capraea, 1s 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 about this Deer that though the pair- 
ing season is in July and August, the young are not born until 
the following May or June, a period which does not represent 
that of gestation. The germ remains dormant for some time 
before developing. 
The Muntjacs, Cervulus, form a distinct generic type confined 
to the Indian and the South-Eastern Palaearctic region. They 
Fie, 153.—Mule Deer. Cariacus macrotis. xs. (From Nature.) 
are small NQeer 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 
