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ture of the stag and the bull, but to a nice observer ; rumi- 

 nates not so easily as the cow or sheep ; reason why ; man- 

 ner of knowing its age ; differs in size and horns from a fal- 

 low-deer ; increase in beauty and stature in proportion to 

 goodness of pasture, enjoyed in security ; seldom drinks in 

 winter, and less in spring ; different colours of stags ; how 

 watchfully he examines an enemy's approach ; delighted 

 with the sound of the shepherd's pipe ; of animals natives of 

 this climate, none have such a beautiful eye as the stag ; 

 beauty and size of horns mark strength and vigour; time 

 and manner of shedding them ; severe cold retards the shed- 

 ding ; horns increase in thickness and height from the se- 

 cond year of age to the eighth ; shedding his horns, hides 

 himself in solitudes and thickets, and ventures out to pasture 

 only by night ; grow differently in stags from sheep or cows ; 

 horns found to partake of the nature of the soil ; a mistake 

 that horns take colour of the sap of the tree against which 

 they are rubbed ; stag castrated when its horns are off, they 

 never grow again ; the same operation performed when they 

 are on, they never fall off; one testicle only tied up, he loses 

 the horn of the opposite side ; M. Buffon thinks the growth of 

 the horns retarded by retrenching the food ; horns resem- 

 bled to a vegetable substance, grafted upon head of the 

 stag ; time of feeling impressions of the rut, or desire of co- 

 pulation ; effects the rut causes ; stag lives about forty years; 

 voice in the time of rut terrible, and then keeps dogs off* 

 intrepidly; a stag and tiger enclosed in the same area, the 

 stag's defence so bold the tiger was obliged to fly; the stag, 

 in rut, ventures out to sea from one island to another, and 

 swims best when fattest, ii. 301. The hind, or female, uses 

 all her arts to conceal her young from him, the most dan- 

 gerous of her pursuers ; men of every age and nation made 

 the stag chase a favourite pursuit ; stags remaining wild in 

 England, called red deer, found on the moors bordering 

 Cornwall and Devonshire ; manner of hunting stag and buck 

 in England ; different names given them, according to their 

 ages ; terms used by hunters pursuing the stag ; the man- 

 ner of knowing the track of a stag ; and that of a hind ; he 

 changes his manner of feeding every month, in what man- 

 ner ; swims against the stream ; the ancient manner of pur- 

 suing him ; that of hunting him ; and in China ; stag of 

 Corsica; a kind called by the ancients tragelaphus ; Germans 

 call it bran-deer, or brown deer ; a beautiful stag, thought a 

 native of Sardinia, though perhaps of Africa or the East 

 Indies ; its description ; stag royal in Mexico ; of Canada, 

 brought into the state of domestic lameness, as our sheep, 

 goats, and black cattle, 312, &c. 



Staggard, name of the stag the fourth year, ii. 317. 



Stare, bird classed with the thrush ; distinction from the rest of 



