SYNOPSIS OF THE 



Icon. In our possession ; heads in Prague and Frankfort 

 Museum. 



Inhabits Mountains of Central Asia, descending in win- 

 ter into the plains of Tartary, and probably of Northern 

 India. 



790. 20. C. Capreolus (the Roebuck.) Horns rather 

 small, cylindrical ; a small antler on the middle of the 

 the beam pointing forward, a second high up, turned to 

 the rear , tail very short , colours brown and reddish ; disk 

 on the buttocks ; size below the middle. 



Var. A blackish kind. 



Caprea, Pliny. Capreolus Dorcas, Gesner. Cervus Ca- 

 preolus, Auctor. Chevreuil, Buff. Cuv. Roebuck, Pent. 

 Shaw. Rehe Rehhock of the Germans. Kosa Dikaja, (i. ^. 

 Goat) of the Russ ; more properly Jerna or Jaru, in Scla- 

 vonic. Ibec of the Tartars. 



Icon. Buff. Fred. Cuv. An. Lithog. 



Inhabits all Europe, and temperate parts of Asia, Scot- 

 land, Dorsetshire. 



Fragments of jaws of a fossil roe have been found 

 in fresh water calcareous strata at Montabusard, Dep 

 du Loiret in France. The horns approach in character 

 those of the Marianna Rusa, but the teeth of the upper 

 Maxilla are different, especially the two anterior molars, 

 which are simple, cutting and divided into three lobes, with 

 only a collar at the base of the second, by which character 

 the fossil species is distinguished from all known deer, and 

 approaches the Musks. See Oss. Fossils, vol. iv. p. 105. 



Sub-genus VIII — Mazama. Horns tending to flatten, 

 bending into segments of a circle, the concave part to the 

 front ; one anterior internal antler, the others posterior, and 

 mostly vertical ; long tail ; suborbital pore forming a fold of 

 the skin ; muzzle ; no canines. 



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