PORCINE DEER. 
and slender. The colour, on the upper part 
of the neck, body, and sides, is brown ; the 
belly, and the rump, are of a lighter colour." 
Pennant adds, that thev are taken in square 
pitfalls, about four feet deep, covered withi 
some slight materials; and that, of their feet,! 
as well as those of the lesser species of Musks, 
and Antelopes, are made tobacco-stoppers." 
There appears to be a variety of the Por- 
cine Deer; the Cervus Porcinus Maculatus 
of the Linnsan system, with which the pre- 
sent animal has been confounded. BuiFon, 
wjio was, as v. c have observed, unacquaintec 
with our Porcine Deer, mentions this Spottcc 
Porcine Deer, under the name of the 11(m 
Stag. " I have seen," savs he, " at I'Ecole 
Vetcrinaire, a small kind of Stag, which was 
said to have been brouglit from the Cape 
Good Hope. It's skin was interspersed witl 
white spois, like tliat of the Axis. It w; 
caHed the Hog Stag ; because it's legs wei 
thicker, and it had not the same agdity 
body as the common kind. It's length, froii: 
the muz7ic, to the cxtrcmitv of the bodv, wa 
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