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44. Mexican. 
Teutlalmagame Hernandez An. firms. Biche 'ties bois, barrens 
Mexic 324 . France JEquin. 131 . 
Cuguaca-apara ? MarcgraiyeBra- Clievreuil dd Amerique. de Buffon^ 
fil , 23$. Fife Bra/dy 97. vi. 210/243. ta ^ : xxxvii... 
Baieu Bancroft Guiana, 122. . Le Cariacou ? deBuffoUi xii. 324. 
Cervus major, corniculis brevif- 347. tab. xliv. 
D. with ftrong thick rugged horns, bending for¬ 
ward ; ten inches long ; nine between point and 
point; trifurcated in the upper part, one ered fnag 
about two inches above the bafe : by accident fub- 
jed to vary in the number of branches : head large : 
neck thick: eyes large, and bright: about the fize 
of the European Roe: color of the hair reddifh ; 
when young, fpotted with white. 
Inhabits MexicoGuiana , and Brafil ; not only 
the internal parts of the country, but even the bor¬ 
ders of the plantations: the flefh inferior to that of 
European venifon. A fpecies very diftind from the 
Roe of the old continent. An accurate account of 
the hoofed quadrupeds, of the new continent, 
among the dejiderata of the Zoologift. 
In the Mufeum of the Royal Society is a pair of 
horns of feme animal of the Roebuck kind, fhyled 
by Grew * horns of the Indian Roebuck : they are 
fixteen inches long, and the fame between tip and 
tip *, are very thick, ftrong and rugged ; near the 
bafe of each is an upright forked branch; the 
ends bend forward, divide into tv/o branches, each 
furnifhed with numerous fnags. 
* Han lies. 24 -, 
Cervus 
