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wonder, then, at the astonishment of Mecenas, when informed of 
the sumptuous manner in which Cesar was entertained by the 
Queen of Sheba? Well may he repeat the query— 
“Hight wild boars roasted whole at a breakfast, and but twelve persons 
there: is this true?” 
Antony and Cleopatra. Act ii., Scene 2. 
A favourite West Indian dish is a wild boar “ barbecue’d,” 
i.e. roasted whole, stuffed with spice, and basted with wine— 
generally Madeira! Pope thus describes a glutton that had ruined 
himself by indulging in such expensive luxuries :-— 
“ Oldfield, with more than harpy throat endue’d, 
Cries, ‘Send me, ye gods, a whole hog barbecue’d.’” 
Tue Came, Camelus arabicus. 
The Camel is mentioned some half-dozen times. In Richard IL, 
Act v., Scene 5; Troilus and Cressida, Act i., Scene 2. 
Tue Sraa, Cervus elaphus. 
Tue Fatiow Derr, Dama vulgaris. 
Tue Rorsuck, Capreolus caprea. 
Deer-hunting is repeatedly mentioned by Shakspeare, who, had 
he not been a thorough sportsman himself, could not have been 
better informed of the terms used in venery. 
Faustarr. “ Divide me like a bribed buck, each a haunch; I will keep 
my sides to myself, my shoulders for the fellow of this walk, and my horns 
I bequeath to your husbands.”—Merry Wives of Windsor, Act v., Scene 5. 
I have quoted the above in preference to innumerable other 
references, for the purpose of ascertaining the derivation of the 
word “bribed” as applied to the quartering of a buck. I have 
consulted some few works which are at hand, such as Osbaldiston’s ° 
‘Sportsman’s Dictionary,’ Sullivan’s ‘ Dictionary of Derivations,’ &c., 
but can find no allusion to the word used in that sense. Perhaps 
the readers of ‘ The Zoologist’ will kindly help me. 
Tue Bison, Bison 
Occurs only once, and then as an adjective (Coriolanus, Act ii., 
Scene 1). The Bison, which was once very common in many parts 
of Europe, is now, according to Mr. A. R. Wallace, confined to 
limited areas in Poland and the Caucasus; whether it occurs south 
