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dice, sufficiently contradicted by the experience 

 of later ages. Indeed it should not be forgotten 

 that Aristotle opposed the common prejudice, and 

 contended that the nature of the animal afforded 

 no probable argument in favour of its longevity. 



FALLOW DEER. 



Cervus Dama. C. cornibus ramosis recnrvatis compressis, 



tate palmata. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 98. 

 Yellowish-brown Deer, with slightly recurvate, compressed, 



branching horns, palmated at the top. 

 Platyceros. Plin. Hist. Nat. n. c. 37. 

 Cervus platyceros. Raj. Quadr. p. 85. 

 Dama vulgaris. Gesn. 335. Aldr. bisulc. 741. 

 Le Daim & La Daine. Bujf. 6. p. i6j.pl. 27, 28. 

 The common Buck and Doe. 

 Fallow Deer. Pennant Quadr. i.p. 113. 



THE Fallow Deer is considerably smaller than 

 the Stag, and is of a brownish bay colour, more 

 or less deep in different individuals ; whitish be- 

 neath, on the insides of the limbs, and beneath 

 the tail, which is somewhat longer in proportion 

 than that of the stag, and is commonly bounded 

 on each side by a descending streak of black, but 

 the principal mark of distinction between this spe- 

 cies and the stag, is the form of the horns, which, 

 as in the stag, are peculiar to the male, and are 

 dilated at the upper part, and palmated, or di- 

 vided into processes which are continued to a 

 considerable distance down the outside of each 



