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weighed 3001b. it had alfo on its neck an ere<ft 
black mane four or five inches long *. 
** With rounded horns. 
Cervus Plinii lib. viii. c. 32. Gef- 93. Hiort, Kron-hiort. Faun . 38. Stag* 
ner quad. 326. fuec. No. 4. 
jelen. Rzaczin/ki Polon. 216. Le Cerf de Buffon, vi. 63. tab. ix. 
Red Deer, Stag, or Hart. Rail x. Brijon quad. 58. 
fyn. quad. 84. Stag, or Red Deer. Br. Zool. I. 
Cervus nobilis. Hirfch. Klein 34. Shazus travels, 243.^ 
quad. 23. CatejbyCarolin. App. xxxviii. Lazv~ 
C. Elaphus. C. cornibus ramo- fonCarolin. 123. Faunul. /mens. 
ris teretibus recurvatis. \Lin.JyJl , 
D. with long upright horns, much branched: 
flender and lharp brow antlers. Color of the flag 
generally a reddilh brown, with fome black about 
the face, and a black lift down the hind part of the 
neck and between the ftioulders. Grows to a large 
fize: one killed in the county of Aberdeen weighed 
18 ftone Scots, or 3141b. horns of the American 
ftags fometimes weigh 30 lb. and are above four 
feet high. 
Common to Europe, Barb ary. North of Afia and 
North America . Lives in herds: one male gene¬ 
rally fupreme in each herd. Furious and dangerous 
in rutting time. Seeks the female with a violent 
braying. Rutting feafon in Auguft. Begins to fhed 
its horns the latter end of February , or beginning of 
March ; recovers them entirely by July . Fond of 
the found of the pipe % will ftand and lifteA atten¬ 
tively. 
* Trawls up the Gambia, 305, 
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