MAMiWALIA. PECORA. Deer. 295 



longer than the fore ; the ears are four inches long. In the fpecimen examined by Mr Pennant the 

 throat and underfide of the neck were of the fame colour with the reft of the body. Dr Gmelin fuf- 

 pedts that the above defcribed animal may only be a fawn of the American Roe. 



638 7- Formofan Mufk. — Mofchus Jinenjis. 



Of the fize of a Stag, and without horns. Nieuhoff, voy. in Harris, coll. 209. 



Inhabits the ifland of Formofa. — This animal is only mentioned by Nieuhoff in a dorfory manner, 

 as above, without plate or farther defcription. 



XXXV. DEER.— 34. CERVUS. 29. 



Has folid branched horns, which fall off and are renewed 

 every year. The lower jaw has eight fore-teeth ; in gene- 

 ral this genus wants tufks, but fometimes one tulk is found 

 on each fide in the upper jaw. 



The animals of this genus are all fond of living in woods ; they fight with their horns, and ftrike 

 with their fore feet ; they are faid to have no gall bladder ; their flelh is univerfally wholefome, and 

 that of fome kinds, under the name of venifon, is efteemed a great delicacy; fome fpecies are ufed by 

 mankind for draught. Mr Pennant has fubdivided the genus into fuch as have the horns palmated, 

 that is, fpread out into broad flat boards, having procefTes or projections, named fnags, fancifully fup- 

 pofed to referable fingers, and the broad part to have fome likenefs to the palms of the hands; hence 

 the name ; and fuch as have rounded horns, likewife branched. It may be neceffary to explain a few 

 terms ufed in defcribing the horns of this genus : The beam is that part of the horn which rifes from 

 the fore-head, like the ftem of a tree ; the palms are broad flat expanfions of the horns in fome fpe- 

 cies, which are befet round with procefTes like fingers, called fnags ; the branches are fubdivifions of 

 the horns, like thofe of trees ; the brow antlers are particular procefTes in fome fpecies, which arife 

 from the beams near the head, and project forwards. The horns grow from the points, and, when 

 growing, are covered with a fkin which is extremely vafcular, and clothed with a fine velvet fur ;, 

 from which circumftance the growing horns are named velvets ; this fltin dries, fhrivels, and falls off,, 

 when the horns have attained their full fize. 



* Having palmated horns. 



630 1. Elk. — 2. Cervus Alces. 2. 



Its broad palmated horns have very fliort beams or none ; the throat has a tufted ex- 



crefcence. Schreber, v. t. ccxlvi. A. B. Briff. regn. an. 93. n. 9. Miller, on var. fubj. of nat. 

 hift. t. x. A. 



Alee, or Machlis. Plm. hift. nat. viii. c. 15.— Alces. Caefar, bell. Gal. v. c. 27. Gefn. quad. i. 

 3. Scheff. Lap. 336. Charlet. exerc. 12.— Alee. Schwenkf. ther. 53. Aldrov. bifulc. 866. f.. 



