224 AMERICAN GAME, 
rior side, and arising from it in a forward and upward 
direction. The only exception to this is the brow antler, 
a short erect spike, which arises from the inner and 
anterior surface of the principal stem. 
In color the American Deer is generally of a reddish- 
brown, or fulvous tint, darker above, and pure white on 
. the chin, throat, belly, and inside of the forelegs, the 
upper:parts being more or less diversified with cinereous 
gray, or bluish hairs. These become more numerous 
during the summer, and in the autumn, and during the 
winter the whole animal assumes a grayer tint. The 
ears are margined with dark brown, and are white 
within, the upper side of the tail is of the same color 
with the upper parts in general, and is white below. 
The hoofs are jet black. 
The female is smaller than the male, and hornless, but 
otherwise resembles him exactly ; the fawns are beauti- 
fully spotted with irregular white spots on a fulvous or 
tawny ground. The male is generally known as the 
buck, and the female as the doe; though, for my own 
part, I consider from their greater analogy to the Euro- 
pean Red Deer than to any other variety, that Hart and 
Hind would be the more correct and sportsmanlike 
nomenclature. This is, however, at best but a subordi- 
nate matter, and need not be insisted on, especially until 
the graver and more important errors in sporting nomen- 
clature, among the birds and fishes especially, have been 
corrected. 
