THE RA1N-DEER. 353 



Addition by the Cpunt de Bujjon, 



I here give an engraving of a rain-deer, drawn 

 from a living female in the pofleflion of the 

 Prince of Conde. It was fent to him by the 

 King of Sweden, along with two males, one of 

 which died on the road, and the other lived on- 

 ly a mort time after its arrival in France. The 

 female refifted the effects of the climate for a 

 coniiderable time. She was of the fize of a 

 hind ; but her legs were fhorter, and her body 

 thicker. Her horns, like thofe of the male, 

 were divided into antlers, fome of which point- 

 ed forward, and others backward. But they 

 were fhorter than thofe of the males. The fol- 

 lowing defcription of this animal was corrimu- 

 cated to me by M. dc Se"ve. 



* The length of the whole body, frOrh the 

 1 muzzle to the anus, in a fuperficial line, is five 



* feet 0n6 inch. The height of the withers is 

 ' two feet eleven inches, and that of the criip- 

 ' per two feet eleven inches nine lines'. The 



* hair is thick and clofe, like that of the ftag,> 

 4 the fhorteft on the body being an Inch and 



* three lines in length. It is longer on the belly, 

 4 very fhort on the limbs, and very lon^ about 



the fetlock. The colour of the hair which 

 covers the body is a reddiih brown, more or 

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