302 MAMMALIA. PECORA. Deer. 



the Malay language it is called Kidang, and Munt-jak by the Javanefe. It is very common, going a- 

 bout only in {ingle families,' and is much efteemed'for its flefh. 



658 9. Roe. — 10. Cernjus Capreolus. 6. 



Has ftrong, fhort, rugged, upright, rounded horns, which are two-forked at the ends ; 

 the body is of a reddifh brown colour. Schreber, v. t. cclii. A. B. Erxleb. mam. 313. 

 BrjfT. regn. an. 89. n. 5. 



Caprea. Plin. hift. nat. viii. c. 53. 58. x. c. 72. xi. c. 37. Aldrov. bifulc. 738. Jonft. quad. 77. 

 t. 31. Raj. quad. 89. — Capreolus. Gem. quad. 324. 1098. Schwenkf. theriotr. 78. Jonft. quad, 

 t. 33. Muf. Worm. 339. Wagn. Helv. 173. Sibbald. Scot. an. 9. Klein, quad. 24. — Dorcas. 

 Charlet. exerc. 12. Gefn. quad. 296. — Sarn. Rzaczinfk. Pol. 217. — Chevreuil, et Chevrette, or 



Male and Female Roe Deer. Sm. Buff", iv. 120. pi. lvi. lvii Ra-djur. Faun. Suec. 43. — Rha- 



bock. Gefn. thierb. 144. f. p. 144. 145. Ridinger, jagdb. th. t. 9. — Roe. Penn. hift. of quad. 

 ft. 51. Arc!, zool. n. 7. Roebuck. Brit. zool. i. 139. 200. 



Inhabits Europe and Afia ; is frequent in the Highlands of Scotland. — Frequents the lefler woody 

 mountains, and, in winter, feeds on the young moots of Fir and Beech. It is an active fhy animal; 

 which generally keeps in fmall flocks or families ; never grows fat, but is reckoned delicate venrfon. 

 In fummer the hair is very fhort and fmooth, being dark grey at the roots, and deep red at the ends; 

 in winter the hair grows very long, and becomes hoary at the ends, except or. the back, where it is 

 often very dark coloured ; the legs are very {lender, and have a tuft of long hair below the firft joint 

 of each hind leg ; the rump and under fide of the tail are white ; the face is blackifh. This {pedes 

 is about four feet long, two feet three inches high before, and four inches higher behind ; the horns 

 are from fix to eight inches long; are caft in autumn, and recovered during winter. The female goes- 

 twenty or twenty-two weeks with young, and has often twins in the month of April. Befides the two- 

 forked extremity, each of the horns have one, two, three, or five lateral fnags or branches, according 

 to age. Charlevoix mentions Roes in North America ; but, as the other Writers, Lawfon, Cateiby, 

 Kalm, and Du Pratz, on the natural hiftory of that country, do not fpeak of them, he is probably 

 miftaken. 



659 [6. White Roe. — C. Capreolus albus. 



Is exactly like the Roe, but pure white, with black hoofs and nofe. Sm. Buff. iv. 134. 



This animal, which was a female, was caught in Franche Comte, and is probably only an acci- 

 dental, and a very rare variety of the Roe. 



66 10. Aha.— ri. Cervus pygargus. i. 



Has no tail; the horns are three-forked. Pallas, It. i. 97. 453. Schreber, v. t. ccliii. 



Cervus Alia. S. G. Gmelin. It. iii. 496. t. 56. — Tail-lefs Roe. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 5 I. A- 

 A rd> zool. i. 33. A. 



Inhabits the woody mountains of Ruffia and Siberia beyond the Volga, and in Hircania. — This 

 fpecies refembles the Roe, but is confiderably larger ; it is of the fame deep red colour, with a large 

 bed of white on the rump and buttocks, extending, up the back ; the fur is exceffively thick, and in 



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