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play, rising for the purpose high upon his hind-legs, and not 

 by running with the head low like the Stag. It bieng in 

 the month of March, their mewing period, he broke one horn 

 off in this sport, and then made several surprising vertical 

 bounds, but only one drop of blood escaped from his head, 

 and he stole away in a crouching gait under a shed*. 



As we are inclined to consider the Cariacou a species, 

 we have ventured to propose a trivial name expressive of 

 his haunts; but whatever be the ultimate determination 

 respecting the species or varieties to be reckoned in the 

 Virginian group, this series shews how much we have to 

 learn respecting the Deer of America. The immense 

 means of comparison now in, and daily arriving at, the 

 Museum of Paris, indeed may, in time, under the hands of 

 the illustrious brothers, clear up the subject; but we can- 

 not but express a wish that the Academies of Natural Sci- 

 ences of Philadelphia and of New York, should do that for 

 Zoology, which, from their zeal and favourable position, 

 naturalists have reason to expect. 



The Subulonine Group. 



Although the specific discrimination of the Deer in gene- 

 ral is sufficiently intricate, none, perhaps, have been in- 

 volved in greater obscurity than the group which we shall 

 denominate Brockets (Subulones), now under consideration. 

 From the circumstance of the females being more numerous 

 than the males, an opinion was long entertained that there 

 were Deer in South America who had no horns ; and this 

 notion induced artificial classifiers, without further inquiry, 

 to lend females and fawns of real deer to the genus Mos- 

 chus: then as the bucks of this group never bear other 

 than prickets or single dags on the head, it was inferred, 



* M. Bajon, Histoire de Cayenne, asserts that the fawn of the 

 Cariacou is spotted with white ; but there is much confusion in the 

 Cayenne description of the Deer. 



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