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of hunting it. As his defcripticn cannot ap- 

 ply to the elk, and as he gives, at the lame time, 

 the mode of hunting the Hag, the fallow deer, 

 the roebuck, the wild goat, the chamois goat, 

 &c. it cannot be ailedged, that, under the article 

 ran%ier y he meant any of thefe animals, or that 

 he' had been deceived in the application of the 

 name. It is apparent, therefore, from thefe pofi- 

 tive evidences, that the rain-deer formerly exifted 

 in France, efpecially in the mountainous parts, 

 fuch as the Pyrennees, in the neighbourhood of 

 which Gallon Phaebus refided, asLord of the coun- 

 ty of Foix; and that, fince this period, they have 

 been deftroyed,like the ftags, which were formerly 

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liead. But, after running long, and doubling, he places his 

 buttocks againfl: a tree, to prevent any attack from behind, 

 and bends his head toward the ground. In this fituation, 

 the dogs dare not approach him, becaufe his whole body is 

 defended by his horns. If they come behind him, he (hikes 

 them with his heels. The grey-hounds and bull-dogs are ter- 

 rified when they fee his horns. The rangier is not taller than 

 the fallow deer ; but he is much thicker. When he rears his 

 horns backward, they cover his whole body. He feeds like 

 the flag or fallow-deer, and throws his dung in clufters. He 

 lives very long. The hunters fhoot him with arrows, or take 

 him with different kinds of fnarcs. He is fatter than a flag. 

 Like the fallow-deer, he follows the flag in the rutting feafon. 

 As to the manner of hunting the rangier or rangli'er\ when 

 the hunters go in queft of this animal, they fhould feparate 

 the dogs, to prevent his running into the thicker* parts of 

 the fore fl, which are inhabited by the fallow-deer and roe- 

 bucks. He fhould feparate his nets and fnares according to the 

 fituation of the foreft, and lead his hounds through the wood. 

 As the horns of the rangier are high and heavy, few hunters 

 attempt to feize him with hounds ; La Venerie de Jacques Du-- 

 Jouilloux, ^97. 



