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TAIL-LESS ROE* 
have a particular manner of calling to the dam* 
which the hunters easily imitate, and often thus 
allure the female to her destruction. Upon some 
occasions also they become in a manner intoxicated 
with their food, which during the spring, is said 
to ferment in their stomachs, and they are then 
very easily taken. In summer they keep close 
under covert of the forest, and seldom venture 
out, except in violent heats, to drink at some 
river or fountain. In general, however, they are 
contented to slake their thirst with the dew that 
falls on the grass and the leaves of trees, and sel- 
dom risk their safety to satisfy their appetite. 
They delight chiefly in hilly grounds, preferring 
the tender branches and buds of trees, to corn or 
other vegetables : and it is universally allowed 
that the flesh of those between one and t^vo years 
old is the greatest delicacy that is known. Per- 
haps, also, the/ scarceness of it enhances its fla*? 
vour. 
Tail-less roe. 
This animal inhabits all the temperate regions 
of Russia and Siberia. It is larger than our com- 
mon roe buck. Rut its chief distinction is the 
want of a tail. It is covered with a long thick 
coat, of a clay colour on the under part of the 
body ; white on the buttocks ; and on the other 
parts, coloured like our roe. Its horns are di- 
vided like those of our roe, into three branches, 
and are tuberculated at the base. 
In summer these tail-less roes inhabit the lofty 
mountains of Hyrcania, Siberia, and that part of 
Russia which lies north-east of the river Wolga. 
In winter they descend from the mountains into 
the adjacent plains. 
