DEER. 
Common on the banks of the Ganges , and in the 
hies of Ceylon and Java ; will bear our climate : 
breed in the Prince of Orange's menagery near the 
Hague: are very tame : have the fenfe of knelling : 
very exquifite: readily eat bread, but will refufe a 
piece that has been breathed on. 
4 1 ® Great j n the BritiJIj Mufeum is a pair of large horns, of the 
fame fnape with the former, and, like them, tri¬ 
furcated ; are very thick ftrong, and rugged; of 
a whitifh color, two feet nine inches long; two 
feet four inches between tip and tip. There is not 
in any of the catalogues the left hint of the place 
they come from ; or any hiftory relating to them. 
From their general appearance, feem to be of a 
fpecies different from the former, 
42. Porcine. D. with {lender trifurcated horns thirteen inches 
long; fix inches diftant at the bafe : head ten inches 
and a half long : body, from the tip of the nofe to 
the tail, three feet fix inches : height, from the 
ilioulders to the hoof, two feet two inches ; and 
about two inches higher behind : length of the tail 
eight inches : body thick and clumfy : legs fine and 
flender : color on the upper part of the neck, body 
and fides, brown; belly and rump, of a lighter 
color. 
In poffeffion of Lord Clive , brought from fome v 
part of India ; called, from the thicknefs of their 
body. Hog Deer. 
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