224 MEXICAN, AND PORCINE DEER. 
Mexican deer. 
This animal, in colour, figure, and size, resem- 
bling our European roe, furnished with horns of a 
different form, is confined, perhaps, to the southern 
regions of the new world ; to Mexico, Guiana, 
and Brasil. Its head is large ; its neck thick ; 
its eyes large and bright. The skin of the young 
is often marked with white rays. Its horns are 
strong, thick, rugged, and bent forwards ; trifur- 
cated at the upper part, and furnished besides 
with a sharp erect snag, separating from the 
trunk of the horn, about an inch and an half above 
the root. It does not live always retired in the 
interior parts of the country ; but ventures out, 
at times, upon the borders of the plantations. 
Its flesh is not equal to that of our European 
roe. 
The Indian roe, whose horns are in the British 
Museum, is considered by Shaw as a variety of 
this species. They are about sixteen inches long, 
very strong, and rugged, their ends bend forward, 
and are divided into two branches, with many 
processes. 
Porcine deer. 
The porcine deer is an oriental animal, about 
three feet six inches long, and nearly two feet and 
a half in height. The figure of its body is thick 
and clumsy, like that of a hog. Its legs are slen- 
der and elegant. Its horns are thirteen inches 
long ; its tail eight ; its head ten and a half. The 
upper part of the neck, body, and sides, is brown ; 
the body and sides are lighter coloured. 
They are natives of Borneo ; and the late lord 
Clive brought one to England from Bengal. They 
