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she followed the destroyers of her dead fawn, and uttered, as 

 she went, a tremulous cry of maternal distress. " This cry," 

 says the narrator, " is often heard during the season for killing 

 fawns, and it is one of peculiar agony." The antlers of the 

 young buck do not make their appearance until the second 

 year, and are then merely simple snags, without branches j 

 the horns of the third year possess two branches ; but those 

 of the sixth are the most ornamental. 



The venison of the fallow-deer is thought better than that 

 of the red-deer. The sk4n, well known as doe or buck-skin, 

 is used for gloves, and other articles. 





THE ROEBUCK. (Cervus capreolus, Linn.) 



This species is now scarce in England ; but it is still abundant 

 in the Scottish highlands. It is the smallest of the three kinds 

 of deer inhabiting Britain. Its length from the end of the tail 

 to the nose, is about three feet ten inches j and its height, at 

 the shoulder, two feet three inches. The colour is subject to 

 much variation ; in some specimens reddish brown is the pre- 

 valent tint, in others brownish grey, and in others it is dusky ; 

 the belly and inside of the thighs are greyish white ; and the 

 part around its short tail is pure white ; the chin and inside 



