PECORA. THE DEER TRIBE. 



** With Hoofs. 

 1. No front-teeth in the upper jaw. 



ORDER V. PECORA. 



No front-teeth in the upper jaw ; in the lower jaw six or 

 eight, at a distance from the grinders. Feet hoofed. The 

 females have their teats situated in the groin. 



THE DEER TRIBE. Horns solid, covered while 

 young with a hairy skin, naked, branched, and annual : 

 front-teeth in the lower jaw eight : most of the species are 

 destitute of tusks, but in a few there is one tusk on each 

 side of the upper jaw. CERVUS. Linn. Syst. Nat. GmeL 

 gen. 29, i. p. 175. 



Males only horned. Body covered with short hair. 

 Tail short. W. B. 



36. THE RED DEER. Horns with several branches, 

 and rounded through their whole length. Cervus elaphus. 

 Linn. 



Heiglri, at the shoulder, about 3 feet. The Stag, or male, differs 

 from the male Fallow deer principally, in having its horns rounded 

 through their whole length ; whilst those of the latter are flat, and, 

 in some parts, of the breadth of more than a hand. The greatest 

 known weight of a British Stag, exclusive of the entrails, head, and 

 skin, has been 31 41b. 



These 



