12 CERVUS ELAI'HUS. 



pressed and bent baek ; head long, terminated by a 

 muzzle ; eyes large ; pupils elongated transversely ; 

 a lachrymal sinus in most ; tongue soft ; body slender ; 

 four inguinal mam m re ; horns solid, deciduous, pal- 

 mated, branched, or simple, in the males ; females, 

 with one exception, without horns. 



.Spec. Char. Rufous brown ; a pale disk on the but- 

 tocks ; horns with three anterior antlers, round, and 

 recurved. 



EXa^ ?' -lri.it. Hist. Animal, ii. c. 7. 18. Ccrvus; Pliiiii, lit) viii. o. 32. 



Gesner, Quadr. 32G. Ccrvus nubilis, (Hirsch) j Klein, Quadr. 23. Itecl Deer ; 



Rati Sriy. Quadr. 84 ; Johnston, Quadr. 82. t. 32, 35. Cervus Elaphus ; Sy.st. 



Nat. Gmelin, 175. Buffon, Hist. Nat. vi. 63. t. 1«). Stag or Red Deer ; Pen- 



nant, Quadr. i. 114, Br. Zool. i. 34. Shaw, Zool. ii.27G. t. 177. 

 Le cerf ; fein. biche ; Fr. ; Cerio ; fcni. cerva, It.; El cierto ; fcm. lu cierva, 



Sp. ; Der Hirsch, fam. die Hirschhuh, Ger.; Glen, feiu. I. an. Itus.; Httqu, 



Tart. 



The Stag varies, both in size and colour, in different countries ; 

 but its mean height is about three feet six inches at the shoulder, 

 and its usual colour reddish-brown above, and whitish beneath, 

 whence the name Red-Deer. In the summer, the upper part of 

 the body, flanks, and outside of the thighs, are fulvous-brown, a 

 blackish line running along the back, marked on each side with a 

 row of pale fulvous spots. In winter these parts are of a uniform 

 grey-brown ; at all seasons the tail is pale buff, separated from the 

 brown by a blackish line. The head, the sides of the neck, under 

 parts of the body and legs are grey- brown, and a broad line of 

 brown passes down the face. All these colours become darker 

 with age, especially in the males. Individuals also occur, of a 

 very dark brown or nearly black, particularly in the Hartz Forest, 

 in Germany, where they are distinguished by the name of Brand- 

 hirsk, or burnt stag, from their colour. In Silesia, and in sonic 

 parts of America, it is generally of very large dimensions ; whereas 

 in China, Corsica, and some other parts of the world, diminutive 



