Class I. ROEBUCK. 61 



body is covered during winter with very long 

 hair, well adapted to the rigor of the highland 

 air ; the lower part of each hair is ash-color, 

 near the end is a narrow bar of black, and the 

 points are yellow. The hairs on the face are 

 iDlack, tipped with ash-color ; the ears are long, 

 their insides of a pale yellow, and covered with 

 long hair; the spaces bordering on the eyes 

 and mouth are black. During summer its coat 

 has a very different appearance, being very 

 short and smooth, and of a bright reddish color. 

 The chest, belly, and legs, and the inside of 

 the thighs, are of a yellowish white ; the rump 

 is of a pure white ; the tail is very short. On 

 the outside of the hind leg, below the joint, is a 

 tuft of long hair. The make of the roebuck is 

 very elegant, and formed for agility. 



These animals do not keep in herds like other 

 deer, but only in families ; they bring two fawns 

 at a time, which the female is obliged to conceal 

 from the buck while they are very young. 

 They engender at the age of eighteen months, 

 and the doe goes with young five months. They 

 live twelve or fifteen years. The flesh of this 

 creature is reckoned a delicate food. 



It is a tender animal, incapable of bearing 

 great cold. M. de Buffon tells us that in the 

 hard winter of 1709, the s^Qcits m Bwrgimdjj 



