Oafs I. ROEBUCK. 



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Species IIL The ROEBUCK., 



•Qaprea Plinii, Cervus cornibus teretibiis eredis. 



Caf)reolus VuIgO. Rail fyn. BriJJhn quad. 6i. 



quad. 89. l^e ^'itf^'h Tom. vi. 289. Tab. 



■Camd. Brit. ii. 771. 3 2, 33. 



Meyer 5 anim. ii. Tab. 73. Cervus minimus, Klein quad. 24. 



Capreolus, 5/^. Scot. pan 3. 9. Cervus capreolus, lAn.Jyli. 94. 



Caprea capreolus. Dorcas^ Gef- C. Coinibus ramofis tcrctibut, e- 



ner. quad. 296. rettis, fummitate bifida, Faun. 



Merret piiiax. i66. Si*cc. 43. Br. ZooL 18. 



NAMES. 



i?'//. Twrcli, 7^7/2. lyrchell Por/. Cabra montes 



Fren. Le Chevreuil Ger. Reechbock,yi2?;72. Reechgels 



h-al. Capriolo "S-iuf^. Radiur, Rabock 



Span. Zorlico.CabronziHoriHontesZ^a;/. Raaedijr Raaebuk 



f~Y^ H E roebuck prefers a mountainous woody 

 X country to a plain one ; was formerly very 

 common in JVales.^ in the north of England., and in 

 'Scotland ; but at prefent the fpecies no longer exids 

 in any part of GrecJ-Britain., except in the Scotti/h 

 ^highlands. 



This is the left of the deer kind, being only three 

 feet four inches long, and two {(zgi two inches high ; 

 The horns are from eight to nine inches long, up- 

 right, round, and divided into only three branches ; 

 their lower part is fulcated lengthways, and extremely 

 rugged ; of this part is made handles for couteaus, 

 Ivnives, (^c. The body is covered with very long 

 hair, well adapted to the rigor of the highland air ; 

 the lower part of each hair is afh- color ; near the 

 ■ends is a narrow bar of black, and the points are 

 yellow : The hairs on the face are black, tipped with 

 aila- color s the ears are long, their infides of a pale 



D 4 yellow. 



