288 MEXICAN ROE. 



in winter descending into tlie plains, the hair at 

 that season assuming a hoary appearance. In its 

 form it resembles the Roebuck, but is larger. Its 

 colour is brown, with the outsides of the limbs 

 and under parts of the body yellowish : the hinder 

 parts of the thighs are white, forming a large bed 

 or patch of that colour on the back part of the 

 animal : the space round the nose, and sides of 

 the lower lip, are black, but the tip of the lip 

 itself white : the horns are strongly tuberculated 

 at the base ; the ears lined within with short white 

 hair, and the orbits of the eyes surrounded with 

 long black hairs. The whole coat of the animal 

 is excessively thick, and in the spring grows re- 

 markably rough and erect. It has no tail, but a 

 mere broadish cutaneous excrescence. 



MEXICAN ROE. 



Cervus Mexicanus. C. cornibus ypice trifurcatis antrorsum "ccrsis, 



rufus. Lui. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 179. 



Rufous Deer, with rough trifurcated horns, bending forward. 

 Chevreul d'Amerique. Buff". 6. p. 210. 243. 

 Teultal machine. Hernandez An. Mexic. 3 24. 

 Mexican Deer. Pennant Quadr. i.p. 122. 



OUR chief knowledge of this species is derived 

 from the information of Hernandez, who in his 

 history of Mexico informs us that it is a native of 

 that province ; but it is also found in Guiana, 13ra- 

 sil, &c. It is about the size of the common or 

 European Roebuck, and of a reddish colour, but, 



