THE BRITISH MAMMALS : THEIR GENERA AND SPECIES. 3! 



as a staggard, he has brow-tine, bez-tine or bay-tine (the alter 

 native spelling giving the pronunciation) and uprights; next yeai 

 as a stag he has brow-tine, bez-tine, and trez-tine (tray-tine), 

 with one upright crocketed, that is, forked into two points, and 

 the other usually single ; and next year, as a warrantable stag, 

 or hart, he has brow, bez, and trez tines, with large crockets on 



RED DEER. 



(Cervus elafhus.) 



both beams ; the next step is when, by further forking, he has 

 twelve points, six on each antler, and so becomes " royal," the 

 points of the cup or crown being known as sur-royals. The Red 

 Deer is polygamous ; the female, or hind, is smaller than the hart, 

 and has no antlers and no throat mane ; she begins to breed 

 when three years old, and has but one fawn, or calf, a year, the 



