56 PECORA. THE DEER TRIBE. 



Sometimes the animals are spotted with white or grey; and some- 

 times, though very rarely, they are entirely white. \V. B. 



Not now found in a wild state in any part of Great Britain or Ire- 

 land : kept in most noblemen's and gentlemen's parks. 



Cerous cornibus ramosis recur^atis compressis : summi- 

 tate palmata. Cerous dama. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 

 i. p. 178. Erxleben, Syst. regn. animal, gen. 29, sp. 5, 

 p. 309. 



Cervus dama. Fallow Deer. Turton, i. 109. Kerr, 

 p. 298. 



Cervus palmatus, dama cercus. Klein, quadr. disp- 

 p. 25. 



Dama vulgaris. Brisson, regn. animal, p. 91. Gesner, 

 p. 307. Ruysch, i. pa. 1, p. 52, tab. 31. 



Cervus plati/ceros. Raii. Synn. quadr. p. 85. 



Le Daim. Buff. Sonn. xxiv. p. 134, tab. 7. Cuv. 

 Tab. Element, p. 160. 



Fallow Deer. Penn. quadr. i. p. 113. Penn. Brit. 

 Zool. i. p. 41. Shaw's Gen. Zool. ii. p. 282, tab. 178. 

 Smellie's Buffon, iv. p. 113, tab. 54, 55. Bing. Anim. 

 Biog. 3d edit. ii. p. 43. 



38. THE ROF. Horns erect, and divided towards their 

 extremity into two or three points, or branches ; body of a 

 reddish brown colour. Cervus capreolus. Linn. 



ffeight, at the shoulder, not more than 2 feet; and weight not 

 more than from fifty to sixty pounds. Tail about an inch long. 

 Horns six or eight inches in length, strong, upright, rugged, and 

 divided towards their extremity into three points or branches. Ears 

 long. On the outside of each hind-leg, below the joint, there is a tuft 

 of long hair* 



In summer the hair is short and smooth, and of a bright reddish 

 colour; but in winter it is very long and thick, Each hair is cine- 

 reous 



