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in their colours from those in America, no doubt in conse- 

 quence of confinement and grooming. The long hair of the 

 throat, and also much of that on the ridge of the neck and 

 sides dropping off. This description, derived from com- 

 paring several living specimens both in Europe and Ame- 

 rica, is the summer habit. One individual in his winter 

 fur was of a chocolate-brown red, mixed with gray, all over 

 the body; the neck thickly furnished with longhair, and 

 the woolly soft fur on the forehead were sepia-brown ; the 

 chin pure white, and the buttocks and tail also nearly white. 

 Comparing this account with our notes taken on the spot 

 during a winter in America, we find a stag reported to have 

 been brought from the Missouri, but which in reality might 

 have been taken in the northern districts of the States of 

 New York, in the vicinity of the great lakes. He was three 

 years old, four feet six inches high at the shoulder ; the nose 

 and legs sepia-black, turning on the neck and back to dun- 

 brown ; the croup and tail nearly white ; the body short 

 and thick like the trunk of an ass ; the legs shaped as in a 

 calf, very perpendicular on the fetlocks, with appearance of 

 callosities on the knees ; the croup somewhat more ele- 

 vated than the withers ; the neck much arched, and adorned 

 with some long hair, the full expansion of that part not 

 taking place till the fifth year ; the muzzle broad and black ; 

 the eyes dark, and the aspect mild ; the horns were greatly 

 deformed. On the 17th of February another sketch was 

 taken of the same animal, his horns were then beginning 

 to shoot anew, the cicatrix of the former not quite healed, 

 and their form resembling a flattened globe ; his face was 

 covered with woolly hair, extremely thick ; on the side of 

 the hinder legs, near the true heel, a gland imbedded in 

 hair secreted an unctuous fluid, which seemed to cause un- 

 easiness, and we were informed that while the horns are ex- 

 panding the animal frequently rubs the points of the antlers 

 against them ; the colour of his fur was a sepia-gray, ex- 



