50 



DEER. 



Class I. 



Fallow deer, or buck ; cervus 



platyceros. llaii syn. quad. 



85. 

 Dama vulgaris. Gesner quad. 



307. 

 Meyers an. Tom. i. Tab. 71. 

 De Buffnn. Tom. vi, l6l. 



Tah. 27, 28. 



Cervus Dama. Cervus cornibvis 

 ramosis recurvatis compressis : 

 summitatibus palmatis. Gm. 

 Lin. 178. Faun. Suec. 82. 



JBr. Zool. 15. Hist. quad. p. 113. 



Cervus palmatus. Klein, quad. 

 25. 



~ 



Buck, 



Doe. 



Fawn. 



Brit. 



Hydd 



Hyddes 



Elain 



Fren. 



Le Dain 



La Daine 



Faon 



Ital. 



Daino 





Cerbiatto 



Span, 



Gamo, Corza 





Venadito 



Port. 



Corza 





Veado 



Germ. 



Damhirsch 







Swed. 



Dof, Dof hiort 







Dan. 



Daae Dijr. 







xxT first, the beasts of chace had this whole 

 island for their range ; they knew no other 

 limits than those of the ocean, or confessed 

 any particular master. When the Sa.vons had 

 established themselves in the Heptarchy., they 

 were reserved by each sovereign for his ov/n 

 particular diversion : hunting and war in those 

 uncivilized ages were tlie sole employment of 

 the great ; their active, but uncultivated minds, 

 being susceptible of no pleasures but those of a 

 violent kind, such as gave exercise to their 

 bodies, and prevented the pain of thinking. 

 As the Saxon kings only appropriated those 

 lands to the use of forests which were un- 



