40 ROEBUCK. Clafs I. 



yellow, and covered with long hair, the fpaces border- 

 ing on the eyes and mouth are black. 



The cheft, belly, and legs, and the infide of the 

 thighs, are of a yeilowifh white, the rump is of a pure 

 white ; the tail is very Ihort. » 



The make of the roebuck is very elegant, and 

 formed for agility : thefe animals do not keep in 

 herds like other deer, but only in families ; they 

 bring two fawns at a time, which the female is obliged 

 to conceal from the buck v/hile they are very 

 young. The flefh of thefe creatures is reckoned a de- 

 licate food. 



In the old Weljh laws, a roebuck was valued at the 

 fame price as a fhe-goat : a flag at the price of an ox % 

 and a fallow deer was efteemed equal to that of a cow j 

 or, as fome fay, a he-goat *. 



It will not be foreign to the prefent fubjed:, to 

 merition the vaft horns frequently found in Ireland^ 

 and others fometimes met with in our own kingdom. 

 The latter are evidently of the ftag kind, but much 

 flronger, thicker, heavier, and furnifhed with fewer 

 antlers than thofe of the prefent race ; of thofe fome 

 have been found on the fea-coaft of Lancafljire -f, and 

 a fingle horn was dug a few years ago out of the 

 fands near Chefier. Thofe found in \ Ireland muft be 

 referred to the elk kind, but of a fpecies different 

 from the Europan^ being provided with brow ant-; 

 krs which that wants. Entire fkeletons of this 

 animal are fometimes met with ; the foil a white 

 marie. Some of thefe horns are four fee: between 



* L:gesWaUic^,z^'&. f Ph.tr. No. 422. 



X No. Z2-;. Boat es Na(. Hif.. Ireland, 137. 



