DEER. 
&botft a year old, was to the top of the withers 5 
feet high, or 15 hands *, the head alone 2 feet long, 
length of the whole animal from nofe to tail, about 
f feet: the neck much fhorter than the head, 
with a fhort thick upright mane, of a light brown 
color. The eyes frnall: the ears 1 foot long, very 
broad and douching: noftrils very large : the up¬ 
per lip fquare, hangs greatly over the lower, and 
has a deep fulcus in the middle, fo as to appear ai- 
mod: bifid : nofe very broad: under the throat a 
frnall excrefcence, from whence hung a long tuft of 
coarfe black hair : the withers very high : fore legs 
3 feet 3 inches long: from the bottom of the hoof 
to the end of the tibia 2 feet 4 inches : the hind 
legs much fhorter than the fore legs : hoofs very 
much cloven : tail very fhort; dufky above, white 
beneath : color of the body in general a hoary black 5 
but more grey about the face than any where 
elfe. This was living laft fpring at the marquis of 
Rockingham 9 s houfe, at Parfotfs-green. It feemed 
a mild animal; v/as uneafy and reftlefs at our pre¬ 
fence, and made a plaintive noife. This was brought 
from North America, and was called * the Moofe 
Deer. A male of this fpecies, and the horns of 
others having been brought over of late years, 
prove this, on comparifon with the horns of the 
European Elk, to be the fame animal. Rut the 
accounts that JoJfelyn and Dudly ** give of the fize 
* From Mufu, which in the Algonkin language hgnifies an E 
P'ide Kahn iter. vol. III. cio. Germ. ed. de Laet. 72. Purchases Pit 
iV. 1831. 
** JoJfelyn s vey. New England, 88. New Engl, rarities, 19 , P 
*franf. abrulg . vii. 447. 
