124 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



think establishes the identity. In this figure the ears are 

 whitish both within and on the outside, with three dark 

 streaks, as in the Antelope, on their inner surface, a large 

 white disk on the buttocks, and only a rudiment of tail. 

 The horns exhibit the same characters as the preceding, 

 and the animal appears more robust and shorter on the 

 legs than the Roebuck. There is also a slight indication of 

 a fold below the eyes ; the colour of the coat is a rufous 

 brown ; the legs and face dun. By this drawing, the work 

 of a native artist, it would appear that the species extends 

 to the southward, probably to the foot of the great chain of 

 mountains where Captain Williamson found the Roebuck, 

 which from his account would seem to be the common 

 species*. 



The Roebuck. (Cervus Capreolus.) The Roebuck is 

 the smallest of European Deer, not above four feet long, 

 and two feet eight inches at the shoulder. There are 

 two varieties of colour, one very red, and the other yellow- 

 ish-brown gray : there is even a third nearly black in the 

 Duchy of Luneburg, in Hanover; but all have a white 

 disk upon the buttocks round the insertion of the tail, 

 which is only one inch long, and does not protrude beyond 

 the hair. In summer, however, the disk is totally or par- 

 tially obliterated ; the hair is then softer, and the head and 

 neck slightly mixed with gray : in winter the fur is closer 

 and darker ; on the back and neck also the colour is deeper 

 than below ; the muzzle, which is small, is surrounded with 

 deep brown, leaving two white spots on the upper lips, and 

 one on the lower. The species is destitute of canines and 

 lachrymary sinus : with the exception of the horns, the fe- 

 male is like the male, and the fawn is spotted with white. 

 In the second year the young buck bears prickets, and the 

 third a small antler is seen on the front of the beam, after- 



* General Hardwick has lately given an account of the Cervus 

 Pygargus to the Linnsean Society, but the paper is not published. 



