MAMMALIA. PECORA. Cervus. 
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36. CERVUS. Horns folid, branched, an- 
nual, tip thicker and covered with a 
downy (kin: fore-teeth low^r 8: tujks 
o, or upper folitary. ' 
Tlie animals of this tribe live in woods, fight with the horns, 
ftamjj with the fore-fect» and are faid to have no gall-bladder ; 
llefh tender, wholcibine. 
Vail o; horns 3-forked. 
Inhabits the woody mountains of Hircama, Ruffta miX'Sib'ria ; 
becomes hoary in winter, and defcerids into the plains ; larger 
than the roe. 
Body deep red ; beneath and on the limb! paler ; round the 
noft and on the Tides of the lower lip black ; tip of the Up 
znd rump \v\\ix.f, /toritr tuberculate at the bale; ears within 
white, hairy. 
9Elepk 
Horns palmate with Ihort beams or 0 ; throat carunculate. 
Moofe, Elk, 
Inhabits Europe, America and AJia as fiir as Japan.; lize of a 
horfe ; gentle, except when teafed by the gad-fly ; feeds on 
twigs and branches of trees, and marfli plants; goes on Us 
hoofs with a flianibling gait at the rate of 50 miles a day; 
Ikin hard, ahnpft able to refill, a muflcet-ball ; flefli good. 
Ears long, large, upright, flouching ; upper lip broad, fquarc, 
deeply furrowed, hanging over the mouth ; nofe broad, nof- 
trils large ; neck fliort, Uouching, with an upright mane ; tail 
very Ihort; fpurious Afl,i/>Iarge, loofe, making a rattling noile 
in travelling. 
•2. Horns palmate, beams long; antlers flattened ; palm-fnags 
long, one on the inner edge of each palm. ° 
The animal unknown, but the horns frequently dug out of 
peat-bogs in Ireland, larger than thofe of the elk. 
(s- Horrls branched, round, rccurvate, 
2. Larger ; hair on the neck longer. 
3- Lefs; body brown, 
4- lUrns very ample. 
5. Size of a common Jog; inhabits China. 
Inhabits Europe, Xortk America and AJia, in herds of many 
females svitli their young, under the guidance of one male; 
fwmis well ; gende, e.xcept during the feafon of the gad-fly; 
fights fiirionfly for tlie females which are feldom horned ; gra- 
'"id ? months, brings 1, rarely 2, young ; drops iu bonis in 
Pebruaj'/ 
Sta^. 
