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THE ROEBUCK. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Horns upright, folid, branched, annually deciduous. 

 Eight cutting teeth in the lower jaw j none in the upper. 



Pennant. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Deer with fmaUifh upright rough trifurcated horns. 

 Roe. 



Pennant, ^ladr. p. io8. 

 Le Chevreuil. 



Buff. 6. p. 289. pi. 22. 23. 



THE Roebuck is the fmalleft of the European Deer, and is diftinguifhed 

 by its fliort and generally trifurcated horns, which feldom exceed the 

 length of a few inches. It is not only pleafing in its general appearance, 

 but becomes more peculiarly interefting from its being a native of our own 

 iflandi and is ftili found in its natural or wild ftate in fome parts of Scot- 

 land, 



Its 



