298 MAMMALIA. PECORA. Deer. 



of the neck it is long and pendent ; the tail is very fhort ; the hoofs are large and concave; the male 

 prepuce is much pendent ; the female has fix teats, the two pofterior of which are impervious. 



044 3. Fallow Deer. — -5. Cervus Dama. 5. 



The horns are compreffed, branched, and bending forwards; having their extremities 

 pahnated. Schreber, v. t. ccxlix. A. B. 



Cervus Dama vulgaris, or common Fallow Deer, having the extremities of the horns palmated. 



. Briff. regn. an. pi. n. 7. — Cervus palmatus, Dama, or Dama-cervus. Klein, quad. 25. — Cervus 



platyceros. Raj. quad. 85. — n^c'i. Arift. hift. an. ii. c. 14. — 'ea«?»; s»gv»Ega;, I« ? ko ; . Oppian, cy- 



neg. ii. 293. 2p6. — Platyceros. Plin. hift. nat. xi. c. 37. — Dama vulgaris. Gefn. quad. 355. f. 



p. 1 100. — Dof, or Dof-hiort. Faun. Suec. n. 42 Daniel. Rzacz. Polon. 2 1 7. — Platogna. Belon, 



obf. 55. — Dann-Hirfch. Ridinger, jagdb. th. t. 7. — Dam-hirfch. Gefn. thierb. 202. f. p. 203. Gr. 

 a Mellin, Schr. d. Berl. naturf. gef. ii. p. — Dain, Daine, or Fallow Deer. Sm. Buff. iv. 113. pi. 



liv. Iv. — Fallow Deer. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 44. Brit. zool. i. 34. Arct. zool. i. 33. B. The 



anatomy of a Hermaphrodite Fallow Deer. Journ. encyclop. 1776, P. ii. 



Inhabits Europe, and Afia as far as the northern parts of Perfia and China, Greece, and Paleftine, 

 being the Jachmur of the Scriptures. — This fpecies is not fo plentiful or univerfal as the Stag ; few 

 are now found wild in Britain ; but numbers are kept in parks. The colour varies, being fometimes 

 reddilh, fometimes deep brown, frequently fpotted with white or grey, and rarely altogether white, 

 It is gregarious, feeding always in flocks; is very eafily confined to parks, and very readily made tamej 

 it feldom lives above twenty years. The female has no horns, goes eight months with young, and 

 brings only one fawn in general, feldom two, and hardly ever three, at a birth. Though they leap 

 remarkably well, yet they may either be kept in an inclofure, or fenced out by means of a cord 

 fixed horizontally two or three feet above the ground. 



** Having rounded horns. 



645 4. Stag. — 3. Cervus Elaphus. 3. 



Has long, rounded, upright branched horns. Schreber, v. t. ccxlvii. A. B. C. D. E. 



E/Kipof. Arift. hift. an. ii. c. 7. and 18. vi. c. 2p. ix. c. 6. Aelian, an. vi. c. 11. and 13. viT- 

 c. 39. xii. c. 18. Oppian, cyneg. ii. 176. — Cervus. Plin. hift. nat. viii. c. 32. Gefn. quad. 354. 

 Schwenkf. theriotr. 81. Aldrov. bifulc. 769. f. p. 774. Jonft. quad. 82. t. 32. 35. Muf. Worm. 

 338. Scheff. Lap. 337. Charlet. exerc. ii. Wagn. Helvet. 173. Sibbald, Scot. an. p. Raj. quad. 

 J.). — Jelen. Rzacz. Pol. 216. — Kron-hiort. Faun. Suec. n. 40. — Edler-Hirfch, "Wild oder thier. 

 Ridinger, jagdb. th. t. 4. 5. — Stag. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 45. Arct. zool. n. 5. — Red Deer, or 

 Stag. Brit. zool. i. 34. — Cerf, Biche, et Faon ; Stag, Hart, or Red Deer. Sm. Buff. iv. 74. 

 pi. Ii. lii. — Its anatomy, E. N. C. cent. 10. app. 448. — Particular differtations. Graba, eleographia.. 

 Jenae, 1668. J. G. Agricola, de cervi natura. Amberg. 1617. 



646 /3. Maned Stag. — 3. /?. C. Elaphus Hippelaphu's. 



Of considerably larger fize, having long hair on the neck. Erxleb. mam. 304. 



Cervus germanicus, or German Stag, with round horns which are turned inwards at the fides, 

 and having a mane on the lower part of the neck. Briff". regn. an. 87. n 2. — 'ia-snAapos. Arift. 



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