FALLOW DEER. 
browses closer than the Stag; which makes 
the trees or bushes eat by him more difficult 
to shoot, than those eat by the Stag. The 
young Fallow Deer eat quicker, and with more 
avidity, than the old. They ruminate. They 
search for the females, in the second year : and 
attach not themselves to one, like the Roe 
Buck ; but love variety, like the Stag. The 
Female goes with young eight months and 
some days. Like the Hind, she produces one : 
sometimes, two ; and, very rarely, three Fawns. 
They are capable of engendering, and produc- 
ing, from the age of two to fifteen or sixteen 
years. The greatest diflerence between the 
Stag; and Fallow Deer consists in the duration 
of their lives. The Stag lives thirty-five or 
forty years ; the FallowDeer, only about twenty. 
As they are smaller, it is probable that their 
growth is sooner a'ccomplished than that of the 
Stag: because, in all animals, the duration of 
life is proportioned to the time of growing, and 
not to the time of gestation; for, here, the time 
of gestation is the same. Besides, in other spe« 
cies, as that of the ox, though the time of ges- 
tation be long, the duration of life is short. 
Of course, we ought not to measure the dura- 
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