260 THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD 
” By permission of Herr Carl Hagenbech] 
SIBERIAN ROEBUCK 
Shows a magnificent pair of antlers 
[Hamburg 
TUFTED DEER 
Near relatives of the odd little muntjacs 
are the TUFTED DEER, of which two species, 
the TIBETAN and MICHIE’S, are known to 
naturalists. The former, found in Eastern 
Tibet, is about the size of the Indian muntjac, 
and has a coat of dark chocolate-brown, 
curiously speckled on the face, neck, and fore 
parts; the frontal tuft is nearly black. The 
antlers of the bucks of both this and Michie’s 
deer are extremely small, scarcely observable 
at a first glance. Both species have long 
curving tusks projecting from the upper jaw. 
Michie’s tufted deer is of a greyish-black 
or iron-grey colour, the face and neck dark 
grey. This animal is found in the reed-beds 
bordering the Ningpo and other rivers in 
Eastern China. 
WATER-DEER 
The CHINESE WATER-DEER is another 
diminutive deer, standing no more than 20 
inches at the shoulder. The body-colouring 
is pale rufous yellow, the head and the back 
of the ears being darker in hue than the-rest 
of the body. The males carry no antlers. 
This tiny deer is found in North-east China, 
and is well known on the islands of the 
Yangtse-kiang River. It loves thick cover, especially reeds and long grass. So apt is it at 
concealment, that in one park, where specimens are kept in a paddock of long tussocky 
grass, hours may be spent without catching a glimpse of it. When disturbed, it scurries off 
with short, quick leaps, very much after the manner of the hare. The males of the Chinese 
deer, like the muntjacs, carry long curved tusks in the upper jaw. 
ROE DEER 
The EUROPEAN ROE, one of the handsomest of all the smaller deer, is still happily found 
in many parts of Scotland. In England, where it had at one time become well-nigh extinct, 
it has been here and there reintroduced with some success. In Ireland it seems never to have 
been found. On the Continent its range is wide, extending from the south of Sweden, through 
France and Germany, to Italy, Greece, Turkey, Austria-Hungary, and Spain, Found in 
Southern Russia and the Caucasus, it makes its way eastward as far as North Palestine and 
Persia. The roe stands, in good adult specimens, 26 inches at the shoulder, and weighs about 
60 Ibs. The handsome and very characteristic horns measure in good specimens from 10 to 
13 inches over the outer curve. The summer coat of this beautiful little deer is a bright 
rufous brown; in winter a darker and duller brown, with a notable white patch about the tail. 
The roe is always more or less a wood-loving creature. In winter, especially, it seldom cares 
to quit the shelter of the forest; in summer, however, the deer wander into more open localities. 
The fawns are born generally towards the end of May, and two young are usually produced. In 
the rutting-season the males fight savagely with one another, 
Mr. J. G. Millais gives an instance of a buck killed in one of these desperate battles, in 
which one antler of the victor, having penetrated the brain of the vanquished buck, had been 
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