CHAPTER XXI. 



THE FALLOW DEER, ROE DEER, AND MUSK 



DEER. 



THE GENUS DAMA — FALLOW DEER — GENUS CAPREOLUS — ROE DEER — GENUS CERVULUS — MUNTJAK 

 OR KIDANG — GENUS MOSCHUS — MUSK DEER — ITS ABODE — HABITS — THE MUSK. 



WE conclude our account ot the Cervidce with some Old World 

 genera which have no representatives either in North or 

 South America. The animals contained in them are less in 

 size than those we have been describing, but if they are less stately, they 

 are quite as beautiful and graceful as the magnificent animals we have 

 mentioned in our previous chapters. 



GENUS DAMA. 



The only species of this genus is distinguished from the Stag by its 

 spreading palmated horns and its spotted coat. In the latter respect it 

 resembles the Axis ; in the former, the Reindeer : and some naturalists 

 place it next to the Tarandus in their classification. 



THE FALLOW DEER. 



The Fallow Deer, Dama vulgaris (Plate XLII), seems to have 

 spread over Europe from the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. It ex- 

 tends to the south of those inland waters as far as the northern limits of 

 the desert of Sahara ; it is found in Tunis, the Greek islands, Sardinia, 

 and Spain. It does not love the severe climates of the North, and does 

 not venture beyond Southern Norway and Sweden. It is, at the present 

 day, most numerous in England ; it is not even there in a wild state, but 



