MAMMALIA. PECORA. Cems. 
105 
F.ebruary or March, and recovers them fully by July ; elegant 
in fliapc, feet high. 
Body above tawny-brown, beneath whitifh, rarely all white j 
IpoUed with white •, the lachrymal dull very diftiuft, 
branches encreaiing in number every year. 
Horns branched, round, recurvate; fummits palmate. 
Rein Deer. 
2. Horns entirely round, covered with a hairy (kin. 
3» Horns ftraight, with one branch at the bafe turned back- 
Inhabits the Alpine mountains of America, Europe and Afta, 
(outhern parts of Rujfia and Sardinia ; defeends in winter 
into the plains, and is driven back to the rnountains in futnmer 
by the pcrfecution of marfh iniefts : feeds on the rein-deer 
lichen, which in winter it digs out of the fnow with its feet ; 
the male cads his homs the end of November, the female not 
till fire fawns, about the middle of May ; gravid 33 weeks, 
brings often twins ; lives about 1 6 years ; when caftrated 
loles the horns, not till the 9th year : is trained in Lapland to 
draw fledges, and fupplies the inhabitants with milk, flcfhand 
clothing ; when domeflicated 3 feet high, wild 4. 
Body brown above, growing gradually w’hiter evith age, beneath 
and mouth white; tail white; hair thick, under the veck 
long; teati 6, the 2 hinder fpurious. 
■'ama. 
Horns branched, recurved, comprelTed ; fummits palmate. 
Fallozv Deer, 
Inhabits Europe, and as far as the northern parts of Ptrfia, va- 
rying in colour, red brown, fpotted, rarely white ; gregarious, 
eafily tamed, lives 20 years ; female homlefs, gravid 8 months, 
brings 1 — 3 young; leaps remarkably well, is reilrained with- 
in bounds by a line drawn acrofs. 
‘'^''ginia. 
nus. 
Axis, 
Horns branched, turned forwards, a little palmate. 
Inhabits Carolina and Virginia, refembles the lad, but taller, 
tail longer, colour lighter ; gregarious, aftive, eafdy tamed ; 
feeds in winter on moffes growing upon trees ; is troubled 
with worms in the head and throat ; flefh dry : ikin valuable. 
Horns branched, round, cre£l ; fummits bifid; body fpotted 
with white. 
Body uniformly bright red ; horns 3-forked at the extremity. 
■ Horns large, whitifh, 3 -forked at the tips. 
I Reddifh-brown ; horns large, thick, rugged, 3-forked. 
Inhabits 
