THE STAG, OR RED DEER. 



Generic Characters. 

 Eight cutting teeth in the lower jaw ; none in the upper. 

 Horns folid, upright, branched, renewed every year. 



Synonims. 

 Cervus Elaphus, Linn. Syjl. 93. 

 Cervus Nobilis, Klein Quad. 23. 

 Red Deer, Stag, or Hart, Raii Syn. Quad. 

 Le Cerf, de Buffon, vi. 63. tab. ix. x. 



The female is called a Hind. 



The young one a Calf 



THE Stag is the ornament of the foreft, and gives a beautiful animation 

 to the folitudes of nature. Its ufual height is three feet and a half, and it 

 meafures fix feet from the end of the nofe to the tail, which is very ihort and 

 generally ered: ; its horns are two feet and a half in length ; its eyes are large, 

 its neck long, its thighs and legs llender, and its hoofs divided into two. Its 

 general colour in England is reddilh brown, with a black llripe down the 

 neck and between the moulders, and fome black about the face. This colour 

 differs fomewhat in other countries. The whole form of the animal is 

 excellently calculated for fpeed ; it is no wonder, therefore, that the chace of 

 it has ever been a favourite diverfion to thofe who delight in fuch amufements. 

 The Stag has been faid to be very long lived, and many wonderful ftories 

 have been related by naturalifts in fupport of this opinion ; but, as it arrives 

 at maturity in five or fix years, and the length of an animal's life is ufually 

 feven times that period, it is very probable that its utmoft age does not 



