14 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



small canine teeth like the stag, and the horns 



deeply cleft, but elevated on long prominences 



of the frontal bone, between which is a plaited 



elastic and unctuous skin. It lives in small troops, 



in Ceylon and Java. Its fur, white at the base, 



brown at the point, has hence a grayish tint. 



America also produces different species of the 



Roebuck, but which have been hitherto but ill 



defined. As these are all of the warm parts of this 



country, they do not change their colour, and have 



no fixed periods for changing their horns. 



Some have the horns arched, with as many as 

 five antlers, according to their age, while others 

 have them always in form of a dagger*. 



The Giraffe, (Camelopardalis, Lin.) Buff. Supp. VII. 



LXXXI. 



Has for its character in both sexes conical horns, 

 always covered with a furry skin, and which never 

 fall. It is moreover one of the most remarkable 

 of animals by the length of its neck, the dispropor- 



* The Roebuck of America, Buff. VI. PI. xxxvu., has the horns 

 large, short, arched, with five very tuberculous antlers toward their base. 

 If this, as it appears to be, is the Gouazou Poucou ofD'Azara, it must be 

 as big as our stag, of a reddish colour, with the upper part of the tail and 

 end of the feet black, inhabiting humid places. It is its horns which 

 Pennant represents under the name of Cervus Mexicanus. The Gouazou 

 Pita which we have in the Museum, is smaller than a Roebuck, of a bright 

 inarron-red, with white at the end of the lower jaw. We have moreover 

 seen two heads with simple or dagger-shaped horns ; yellow-gray • one of 

 the size of the deer, the other of the roebuck. This is called Cariacou, at 

 Cayenne. 



