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STAG. 



said to be often bordered with native* roses. 

 They understand all the arts of the dairy, and 

 from the milk of their deer prepare many of their 

 most nourishing and agreeable repasts. 



STAG. 



Cervus Elaphus. C. cornibus ramosisj totis teretihus recurvatis, 



Lin. Sysf, Nat» p. 98. 

 Rufous-brown Deer, with cylindric, recurvate, branching horns. 

 Cervus. Plin. Hist. Nat. 8. ch. 32. Gesn. Quadr. p. 354. Aldr, 



bisulc. p. 769 Jig. p. 774. Jo7ist. Quadr. p. 82. t. 32. 35. 

 Le Cerf. Buff. 6. p. 63.pl. 9, 10. 

 Stag or Red Deer. Pemi. Brit. Zool. i. 35. No. 6, 

 Stag. Pennant Quadr. i.p. 114. 



The Stag, Hart, or Red Deer, male. The Hind, female. 



The Stag, says Buffon, is one of those innocent 

 and peaceable animals that seem destined to em- 

 bellish the forest, and animate the solitudes of 

 Nature. The elegance of his form, the lightness 

 of his motions, the strength of his limbs, and the 

 branching horns with which his head is decorated, 

 conspire to give him a high rank among quadru- 

 peds, and to render him worthy the admiration of 

 mankind. 



* This remarkable circumstance is mentioned by Maupertuls in 

 his work on the figure of the earth. He assures us that on the banks 

 of the river Tenglio in Lapland he saw roses f of as bright a red 

 as he had ever observed in gardens. 



•f I know not what kind of roses these could be : Linnaeus commeniorates no 

 such in his Flora Lapponica. 



