78 THlE REINDEER. 
The reindeer, which has the general 
of the stag, is, when full grown, about 
feet and a half in height. The body is ratb®^ 
thick and square, and the legs are short®^'' 
in proportion, than those of the stag. 
sexes are furnished with branching antl^^* 
which are longer and larger in the male th^’' 
in the female ; and these they shed annual^j 
like the other species of deer. The genet^ 
colour of the body is brown above and wh^^ 
below ; but, with advancing age, it frequent^! 
becomes of a grayish white, sometimes alm*^’ 
quite white : but the space around the ey^’ 
is always black. The hair on the throat 'j 
much longer than on any other part, 
forms a kind of hanging beard. The 
are long, large, and black; as are also 
false or secondary hoofs behind, and the®^' 
from their contraction and expansion, make? 
running, a remarkable clattering sound, whi^ 
may be heard at a considerable distance. 
