COMMON ROE. 291 



spotted ni a similar manner with the Axis : the 

 nadcr will find it figured in the present publica- 

 tion on the same plate with that animal. 



COMMON HOK. 



Cervus Capreolus. C. cornibut ramosu tfretibus crectu, sttmmi* 

 fate bifida, corporcfusco-rufo. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 180. 



Rufous-brown Deer, with branching upright cylindric horns, 

 bitid at the top. 



Caprca. 1'lin. Hint. Nat. 8. c. 53. Aldr. bisvk. 738. Jvrut. 

 Qitadr. p. 77. /. 31. 



Capreolus. Gem. Quadr. 324. 1098. 



Le Chevmiil. Buff. 6. p. 198. pi. 32, 33. 



Roe. Pennant Quadr. i.p. 120. 



THE general history of the Hoe has been so ex- 

 cellently detailed by the Count de Huffon, that 

 I shall not scruple to insert without any ma- 

 terial alteration, his description of its man? 

 &C. premising only that its colour is a reddish 

 brown, and that it is the smallest of the Kuropeaa 

 animals of this genus. 



" As the Stag (says this author) i.s the noblot 

 inhabitant of the wood, he occupies the deepest 

 shades of the forest, and the most elevated ridges 

 of those mountains which are covered with lofty 

 > The Hoe, as if inferior in species, contents 

 himself with an humbler residence, and generally 

 duclls among the thick foliage of young brush- 

 wood. But if he is interior t< the stag in dignity, 

 strength, and stature, lie is endowed with more 



