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THE COMMON ROEBUCK. 
Capreolus dorcus, Gesner. 
PLATE XV. 
Cervus capreolus of Authors — Chevreuil, Buffon Roe or 
Roebuck of English writers. 
The common Roe or Roebuck is one of the most 
elegant of our native deer, and fonns a most appro- 
priate and beautiful object in tlie woods and copses 
of the Scotch Highlands. In Scotland, north of the 
Forth, it is every where abundant, where rock and 
wood abounds ; so much so, as in some places to be 
condemned to extirpation, from the damage done to 
the young wood. It delights in what may bo called 
the lower coverts, the civilised woods, and leaves 
those of sterner character, more solitary and wild, 
to be frequented by that pride of the north, the Stag 
or Red Deer. South of the Forth, it is very rare, 
one or two wilder parks only possessing a few ; but 
frequent traces of its former abundance is found in 
the border counties, remains and skeletons being 
almost yearly disinterred from most of the larger 
peat-mosses : in the rugged woods of Westmore- 
land and Cumberland it still abounds. On the con- 
