& ROEBUCK. Class I. 



of Henry VIII.* In France they are more 

 frequent ; they are also found in Italy, Sweden, 

 and Norway ; and in Siberia in Asia.-\ The 

 first that are met with in Great Britain are in 

 the woods on the south side of Loch Rannoch y 

 in Perthshire: the last in those of Langwal, on 

 the southern borders of Cathness; but they are 

 most numerous in the beautiful forests of In- 

 vercaald, in the midst of the 'Grampian hills. 

 They are unknown in Ireland. 

 Desgrip. This is one of the lest of the deer kind, 

 being only three feet nine inches long, two feet 

 three inches high before, and two feet seven 

 behind : the weight is from .50 to 60lb. The 

 horns are from eight to nine inches long, up- 

 right, round, and divided into only three 

 branches ; their lower part is sulcated length- 

 ways and extremely rugged; of this part is 

 made handles for couteaus, knives, &;c. The 

 horns of a young buck in its second year are 

 quite plain; in its third year a branch ap- 

 pears \ in the fourth its head is complete. The 



* The editor has been informed that seven or eight specimens 

 of the horns of the roebuck have been discovered in the peat beds 

 near Romsey, in Hampshire ; a proof, that at some remote 

 period, this animal inhabited the southern part of the kingdom. 

 A complete head of a beaver with the teeth entire, was found in 

 the same place. Ed. 



t Be ITs Travels. 



