THE BRITISH MAMMALS I THEIR GENERA AND SPECIES. 2Q 



black facings to the forelegs, and the build generally is more 

 that of the highland breed. As with the others, the tail is long, 

 the hoofs large and rounded, and the cows are either horned or 

 hornless. All these cattle feed by night, hide their young, and 

 are difficult of approach and much faster on the move than any 

 of the domestic breeds. 



Capreolus. Plate xviii. UNGULATA. 



52. caprea, ROE DEER. Antlers three-pointed, short, stout, and 



upright, and without brow tine. 



The Roe is the smallest of the British deer, its height at the withers 

 being from twenty-four to twenty-six inches. In colour it is a tawny 

 brown, changing to greyish in winter owing to the tips of the hairs 

 losing their reddish tinge. The doe is always lighter in colour than 

 the buck, and the fawns, of which there are usually two, are yellowish 



ROEBUCK. 

 (Capreolus caprea. ) 



red spotted with whitish. The hinder part of the haunches and 

 the under surface of the rudimentary tail are white. The Roebuck 

 sheds his antlers in the autumn not in the spring and renews 

 them during the winter. These have no brow-tine, and do not 

 palmate. In the first year they are but a single spike; in the 

 second year they fork, fore and aft, into two ; in the third year they 

 have three ooints, due to the forking of the hinder prong, and they 



