deer; 
33 
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: Caprea Plinii lib. xi. c. 37. tate bifida Lin. fyjl. 94. Radjur. 
Caprea, capreolus, Dorcas Gef- Faun. fuec. No. 43. 
| ner quad. 296. Le Cnevreuil de Buffon , vi. 289. 
Sarn Rzaczinfki Polon. 27. tab. xxxii. xxxiii. BriJJon quad. 
Cervus minimus Klein quad. 24. 61. Charlevoix N. France , v. 193. 
Faunul. /mens. Roebuck Br. Zool. I. 139. Bell’s 
; Cervus capreolus. C. cornibus F’rav. I. 200. Br. Muf. AJh. 
ramofis teretibus ere&is, fummi- Muf. 
D. with ftrong upright rugged trifurcated horns from 
fix to eight inches long: length, from nofe to tail, 
three feet nine inches : height before, two feet three 
inches : behind, two feet feven inches : tail, one 
inch : weight of a full grown buck near 60 lb. hair 
in fummer very fhort and fmooth •, ends of the hairs 
deep red, bottoms dark grey : in winter, very long 
and hoary at the tips, except on the back, where 
it is often very dark: the legs (lender , and below 
the firft joint of the hind legs is a tuft of long hair: 
rump, and underfide of the tail, white. 
Inhabits moft parts of Europe , as far north as 
Norway: found in Tart ary and China ; not in Africa. 
Uncertain whether this kind is found in N America* 
notwithstanding it is mentioned by Charlevoix : un¬ 
noticed by Lawfon and Catejhy « Frequent in the 
highlands of Scotland , but in no other part of Great 
Britain . 
Fond of mountainous wooded countries, brouzes 
very much, and during winter eats the young (hoots 
of fir and beech : is very aftive; lives in fmall fa¬ 
milies : brings two young at a time; conceals them 
from the buck : the flefh delicate, but never fat. 
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