THE CHEVR0T1N, 



Or LITTLE GUINEA DEER. 



Generic Characters. 

 Horns annulated or t willed. m 



Eight broad cutting teeth in the lower jaw, none in the upper. 

 Body and limbs of a light and elegant form. 



Synonims. 



Cervula parvula Africana, Seb. Muf. u 70. tab. xliii. 

 Le Chevrotain de Guinea, de Buffon, xii. 315. tab. xliii. 

 Petite Biche, des Marchais, i. 312. 

 King of the Harts, BofmarisVoy. 236. 

 Royal Antelope, Pennant's Syn. Quad. 28. 



AS the Chevrotin is the leaft of all cloven-footed quadrupeds, fo it is 

 decidedly the moll beautiful and elegant. Its height is not more than nine 

 inches, and it is about twelve inches in length, from the point of the nofe to 

 the infertion of the tail. The legs are fo delicate, that the fmallell part of 

 them does not exceed the Item of a tobacco pipe in thicknefs : they run 

 exceedingly fwift, and poflefs fo much activity, that they can fpring over a 

 wall twelve feet high, which is more than fixteen times their own height, 

 and is perhaps the moll aftonilhing inltance of agility found in any 

 quadruped. The head of the male is adorned with two horns, not quite two 

 inches long, which are mining, and as black as jet. The females are without 

 horns. The ears are broad. The colour of the hair is a reddiih brown. 



