158 Quadrupeds. 
THE EOEBUCK, (Cervus capreolus,) 
Is one of the least of the Deer kind known in these 
climates, being not above three feet in length, and two 
in height, and seldom lives more than fifteen years. His 
horns are about nine inches long, round, and divided into 
three small branches, and his colour is of a brown shade 
on the back, his face partly black and partly ash-colour, 
the chest and belly yellow, and the rump white ; his tail 
is short. The Eoebuck is more graceful, more active, 
more cunning, and comparatively swifter than the stag ; 
his flesh is much esteemed. He is very delicate in the 
choice of his food, and requires a larger tract of country, 
suited to the wildness of his nature, which can never 
be thoroughly subdued. No arts can teach him to be 
familiar with his keeper, nor in any degree attached to 
him. These animals are easily terrified ; and in their 
attempts to escape will run with such force against the 
walls of their enclosure, as sometimes to disable them- 
selves : they are also subject to capricious fits of fierce- 
ness ; and, on these occasions, will strike furiously with 
their horns and feet at the object of their dislike. The 
only parts of Great Britain where they are now found 
are the Highlands of Scotland. 
