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The Roebuck. Capreolus Capreea. 
Inside of the ears fulvous ; summer, red brown ; winter, olive, pale punctated ; horns short. 
Capraa, Plin. — Gesner. — Capreolus, Brisson. — Cerms capreolus, Linn.— Pallas, Zool. Ross. A. i. 219. — Capre- 
olus CaprcBa, Gray, Cat. Osteol. B. M. 64. — Capreolus Europceus, Sundeval, Pecora, 61. — Roe Buck, Penn. 
— Chevreuil and Chevrette, BufFon, H.N. vi. 198. 
Inhabits Europe. A larger variety is said to have formerly inhabited the Tyrol. 
The Ahu. Capreolus pygargus. 
Interior of the ears fulvous ; fur pale yellowish ; horns elongate. 
Cervus pygargus, Pallas, Reise, i. 97, 198, 433, ii. 159 ; Spic. xii. 7 (not Hardwicke). — Schreb. S. v. t. 253. — 
C. capreolus fi, Pallas, Zool. Ross. Asiat. i. 219. — Cervus Ahu, Gmelin, Reis. iii. 496. t. 56. — Griffith, A. K. 
iv. 122. t, . — Capreolus pygargus, Sundeval, Pecora, 61. — Tailless Deer, Penn. Quad. i. 121. — Tailless 
Roe, Shaw. 
Inhabits Central Asia. Collection of the British Museum. 
The Gemul or American Roe. Capreolus ? Huamel. 
Inside of the ears white ; fur dark, closely yellow punctated. 
Equus bisulcus, Molina, Chili, 520. — Fischer, Syn. Mamm. 430. — Auchenia Huamel, H. Smith, G. A. K. v. 764. 
— Cervus Chilensis, Gay et Gervais, Ann. Sci. Nat. 1846, 91. — Cloven-footed Horse, Shaw, Zool. ii. 441. 
— Guemul, Chilians. — Gemuel sen Huemul, Vidaure, Chili, iv. 87. — Camelus equinus, Triverianus, Mus. Biol, 
ii. 179. — Hippocamelus dubius, Leuckart de Equo bisulco, 24. 1816. — Cervequus andicus. Lesson, Nov. Tab. 
R. A. 173. — Cervus (Capreolus') leucotis. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849, 64. t. 12. 
Inhabits mountains on East Coast of America. 
The female American Roe in Lord Derby's Museum at Knowsley is considerably larger, and has the 
legs thicker, than the Siberian ^hu, which is much larger than the European Roe Buck. 
12. CARIACUS (Gray), Mazama {Sundeval), Mazama, part {H. Smith), 
has cylindrical arched horns, with a central, internal snag, the tip bent forwards, and with the lower branches 
on the hinder edge ; they are covered with soft thin hair, have a moderate tail furnished with long hair 
on the under side, a white anal disk, rather elongated, large, rounded ears ; they generally have a tuft of 
white hair on the outer side of the hind-leg, rather below the middle of the metacarpus, but it is some- 
times not to be seen ; the skull has a very small, shallow, suborbital pit, and the nasal bone is broad 
and subtriangular behind ; the tail is elongate, slender, pale, with the lower part dark, and reaching 
nearly to the hocks in summer ; much shorter and broader, and all dark olive in the winter. Con- 
fined to Northern America. 
* Some have the hoofs narrow, elongate ; tail hairy beneath. 
The American Deer. Cariacus Virginiams. Tab. XLVL, in winter coat. 
Bright fulvous in summer, greyer in winter; tail fulvous above, the tip black, beneath white; carried 
erect when running ; nose brown ; side of mouth white, with an oblique black band from the 
nostrils ; hoofs narrow, elongate. 
Dama Virginiana, Raii Syn. 86. — Fallow Deer, Lawson, Carol. 23. — Catesby, Carol. App. 28. — Cervus Dama 
Americanus, Erxl. Syst. 312. — Cervus Mewicanus, Licht. Darstell. t. 20. — Cervus Strongyloceros, part, 
Schreb. Saugth. 1074, not figure. — Cervus campestris (Mazame), F. Cuv. Mam. Lithog. t. . — Cervus Vir- 
ginianus, Gmelin, S. N. i. 179. — Desm. Mamm. 442. — F. Cuvier, Mam. Lithog. t. 205. — C. Mangivorus, 
Schrank, Ann. Wetter, i. 327, 1819, from BufFon. — C. (Mazama) Virginiana, Bennett, Gard. Z. S. 205.- — 
Fischer, Syn. 449. — Peale, U. S. Explor. Exped. 39.^ — Sundeval, Pecora, 58. — Cervus leucurus, Long-tailed 
Deer, Douglas, Zool. Journ. xv. 330. — Richardson, Faun. Bor. Amer. i. 258. — C. Mazama leucurus, Sun- 
deval, Pecora, 69. — Cariacus virginianus, C. leucurus, and C. mexicanus. Gray, Cat. Osteol. B. M. 63, 64. — 
Virginian Deer, Penn. Syn, 51. t. 9. f. 2 ; Quad. i. 104. 1. 11. f. \ .—Cerf de La Lomsiane, Cuvier, R. A. 
i. 256 ; Oss. Foss. iv. 33. t. 6. f 1-5 — Chevreuil, Chalev. Nouv. Fran. iii. 162— Cariacou, Bufi'on, H. N. 
xiii. 347. t. 44. 
Mr. Peale observes, — " We believe that the same species of Deer inhabits all the timbered or partially 
timbered country between the Coast of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. They vary in size, as all the 
animals of this genus do, in diflTerent feeding grounds, but they are specifically the same." The Mexican 
