50 



DEER. 



Class I. 



Fallow deer, or buck ; cervus Cervus Dama. Cervus cornibus 



platyceros. Raii syn. quad. ramosis recurvatis compressia : 



85. summitatibus palmatis. Gm. 



Dama vulgaris. Gesner quad. Lin. 178. Faun. Suec. 82. 



307. Br.Zool.i5. Hist, guad.p. 113. 



Meyer s an. Tom.i. Tab. 71. Cervus palmatus. Klein, quad. 



De Buffnn. Tom. vi. l6l. 25. 

 Tab. 27, 28. 





Buck. 



Doe. 



Fawn - . 



Brit. 



Hydd 



Hyddes 



Flain 



Fren. 



Le Dain 



La Dainc 



Faon 



Ital. 



Daino 





Cerbiatto 



Span. 



Gamo, Corza 





Venadito 



Port. 



Corza 





Veado 



Germ. 



Dambirsch 







Sioed. 



Dof, Dof biort 







Dan. 



Daae Dijr. 







AT first, the beasts of chace had this whole 

 island for their range ; they knew no other 

 limits than those of the ocean, or confessed 

 any particular master. When the Sa.vom had 

 established themselves in the Heptarchy, they 

 were reserved by each sovereign for his own 

 particular diversion : hunting and w-ar in those 

 uncivilized ages were the sole employment of 

 the great ; their active, but uncultivated minds, 

 being susceptible of no pleasures but those of a 

 violent kind, such as gave exercise to their 

 bodies, and prevented the pain of thinking. 

 As the Saxon kings only appropriated those 

 lands to the use of forests which were un- 



