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cnly by its deeper and aimoft black colour, but 

 by long hair between the moulders and on the 

 throat. This kind of mane and heard give hkfc 

 fome relation, the firft to the horfe, and the fe- 

 ccrod to the he-goat. The ancients beftowed on 

 this fta'g the compound names of hippelcpbr ■ 

 and traiichiphus. As thefe denominations have 

 occafioned many critical difcuflions, in which 

 the moil learned natural ifts bv no means acrcc, 

 and as Gefner *, Caius, and others, tell us that 

 the hippelaphus was the rain deer, we thought it 

 proper here to give the reafons which induce us 

 to think differently, and lead us to helieve, that 

 the hippelaphus of Ariflotle is the fame animal 

 with the tra^elaphusof Pliny, and that both thcie 

 names equally denote the (tag of Ardennes. 



Ariflotle t gives to his hippelaphus a kind of 

 mane upon the neck and top of the moulders, a 



beard 



* Gefner, Hift. quad, p. 491. et 49^ 



f Quinetiam hippelaphus fatis jubae Hammis cbhtinet ar- 



-, qui a forma equi et cervi, quain habet compofitam, 

 nomen acccpit, qua.fi equicervu.s dici meruiiTet. . . . Tenu- 

 iflimo jubae ordinc a capite ad fummos armos crinefcit. Pro- 

 pnum equicervo villus qui ejus gutturi, modo barbae, depen- 

 ded. Gerit coniua utrinque, eXcepta foemina, . . . . et pe- 

 des habet bifculcos. Magnitude) equicervi non diffidct a cervo. 

 G'ignilur apud Araehotas, ubi etiam boves fylvefrres ftirit, qui 

 dioerunt ab urbanis, quantum inter fues urbanns et fylveflres 



itereft. Sunt colore atro, corpore robufto, ricifu leviter ad- 

 r.nco ; cornua gerunt rcfupinatiora. Equicervo borriua funfc 

 Gafrae proxinra. ; Ariji. Hijl. Ahh>u Tiv. 2. cap. 1. Notat. The- 

 odore Gaza, Whofe La'.in veifinn we have quoted, has falfely 

 tranfiated At^xu? cap:\-., inftead of b#pfea. Hence the word 



•/ :.e ihould be fubftituted for caprcre, that is, the rye'deef, in 



plac'e 



