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when young, is often spotted with white. The horns 

 are thick, strong, and rugged : they bend for- 

 wards, and are about ten inches long, and trifur- 

 cated on the upper part ; but they sometimes vary 

 in the number of branches or processes : the head 

 is large ; the eyes large and bright, and the neck 

 thick. The flesh is said to be far inferior to the 

 venison of Europe. 



Var, ? 



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Mr. Pennant describes, from the Museum of 

 the Royal Society (now translated to the British 

 Museum), a pair of horns of some animal of the 

 Roebuck kind, styled by Grew, in his description 

 of the above-mentioned Museum, Horns of an In- 

 dian Roebuck. Thev are sixteen inches long:, and 

 the same between tip and tip : they are very large, 

 thick, strong, and rugged ; and near the base of 

 each is an upright forked branch ; the ends bend 

 forwards, and divide into two branches, each fur- 

 nished with numerous snags or processes. 



