24 Of Quadruped's. Part I. 
Buck, They are a yard high, with numerous, and round 
Branches. Covered all over with an afhcolour d hair, a 
* of an inch long, and {landing upright, as the Pile of 
Velvet. 
The HORNES of an Indian Roe-Buckh which the 
people of Brafile call Cuguacu-apara. See the Defcription 
of the Animal in Marggrarius. His Picture in Johnfton 5 but 
under the name of the Capreolm Marinas. 
The HORNES of a Roe-Beer of Greenland. They 
are very little more than an inch long, and half an inch 
over. They are pointed at the top, and knobed or tube- 
rous at the bottom. 
( a ) Joh. de Deer in New Mexico fo big, (a) that they breed them up 
lfo%bf°™a- to draw with,as we do with Oxen and Horfes. So ftrangely 
*wai?/Aifon- does the Climat alter the Bulk of fome Animals. Dear, 
navides. £ ~ ana< tne y only, may be fuppos'd to cad their horns, becaufe 
they have neither a long Tail, as Oxen $ nor fo long hair 
as a Goat or a Ram 3 by either of which is made a conti- 
nual confumption of the fame matter, which in Deer 
goes into the horns. The horns of Deer, are of all other 
the fulleft of Volatile Salt. Which may lead us to con- 
jecture of the like nature of his flelh, ana blood $ and the 
caufe of his great falacity. 
The ROC K-D O E. Ibex fcemina. A kind of wild 
Goat. See the Defcription of Pliny, and BelJonius. She 
breeds chiefly upon the Alps. A Creature of admirable 
fwiftnefs. And may probably be that very Species men- 
(b) Chap, tion'd in the Book of Job. (b) Her horns grow fometimes fo 
39 ' far backward, as to reach over her Buttocks. 
The HORNES of the WRE ATHED-Horn- 
Goat, or Antilope of Barbary, called Capra Strepficerotes, and 
Gazella. See the Defcription of the Animal in Wormius. 
Thefe Homes are about" a foot and * long. But in Septa- 
liuss Mufaum there is one pair faid to be above a yard in 
length. They are twifted into a kind of fpiral fhape, but 
the Rings which feem to be fpiral, are really circular. 
The BONE of the ANTILOPES HORN5 
which is folid, and alfo fpiral or twifted, but without Rings. 
Given by Henry Whiftler Efq$. 
The HORNES of the SYRIAN GOAT 5 
called Capra Mambrina 1 . Syriaca being. Mambre, a Moun- 
tain 
