THE ROE. 



intoxicates them to such a degree, that frequently 

 they do not know where they are going, and in 

 consequence sometimes approach flocks of cattle, 

 and even the habitations of men*. 



The females go with young about five months 

 and a half, and produce their Fawns generally 

 towards the end of April, or the beginning of May. 

 Previously to the time when a female is about to 

 bring forth a new family, she drives off her former 

 young ones, in order to provide habitations and to 

 form societies for themselves. She then retires to 

 some secure place in the woods, concealed from 

 the observation of Foxes, and other predacious 

 animals, and there deposits her progeny. These 

 are two in number, usually a male and a female. 

 In the course of ten or twelve days, when they 

 have acquired sufficient strength to follow her, she 

 brings them to the plains, where they are, for the 

 first time, seen by the Roebuck; and so ardent does 

 his attachment become to them, that when, on any 

 occasion, they are assaulted, he will come forward 

 in their defence, and boldly attack the foe. 



When the Roes have attained the age of twelve 

 months, the horns first begin to appear, in the 

 form of two small knobs. The first horns are quite 

 plain. Those of the following year have each a 

 single branch; and at the commencement of the 



Button par Sonnini, xxiv. p. 171. 



animal's 



