[ Clafs I. 
quadrupeds. 
SPECIES III. The ROEBUCK. 
RaiiJyn. quad. 89* 
Camd. Brit. 2. 771. 
Meyer's anim. 2. Tab* 73- 
Capreolus, Sib , [cot. part 3. 9, 
Caprea capreolus. Dorcas* Ge[ 
ner. quad. 296, 
Merretpinax. i66« 
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Britijh , Iwrch,/^. lyrchell 
French , Chevreuil 
> IN 
Italian , Capriolo 
Spanijh r Zorlito, Cabronzillo months 
Cervus cornibus teretibus erectis. 
Brijfon quad, 89. 
Buffon , Tom. 6. 298. Tab. 32, 33. 
Cervus minimus, Klein quad, 24. 
Cervus capreolus, L/;?. jyfi. 79. 
C, cornibus ramofis teretibus e- 
reftis, lummitate bifida, Faun, 
fuec. 41, 
' Portug. Cabra montes. 
German , Reechbock. f<em, Reechgeifs 
^ Dutch , Rhee 
Swedijh. Radiur, Rabock 
T H E roebuck prefers a mountanous 
woody country to a plain one; was 
formerly very common in Whales , 
In the north of England\ and in Scotland ; 
but at prefent the fpecies no longer exifts in 
any part of Great-Britain , except in the 
Scottijh Highlands , where they abound. 
tipped with afti color; the ears are long, their 
infides of a pale yellow, and coverd with long 
hair, the fpaces bordering on the eyes and 
mouth are black. 
1 . * 
The cheft, belly and legs, and the infide of 
the thighs, are of a yellowifh white, the rump 
is of a pure white ; the tail is very fhort. 
This is the left of the deer kind, being only 
three foot four inches long, and two foot two 
inches high: The horns are eight inches long, 
upright, round, and divided into only three 
branches; their lower part is fulcated length¬ 
ways, and extremely rugged; of this part 
is made handles for couteaus, knives, c . 
The body is covered with very long hair, well 
adapted to the rigor of the highland air; the 
lower part of each hair is afh color ; near the 
ends is a narrow bar of black, and the points 
are yellow i The hairs on the face are black. 
The make of the roebuck is very elegant, 
and formed for agility : thefe animals do not 
keep in herds like other deer, but only in fa¬ 
milies ; they bring two fawns at a time, which 
the female is obliged to conceal from the buck 
while they are very young. The flefh of 
thefe creatures is reckoned a delicate food. 
In the old IFelJh laws, a roebuck was va¬ 
lued at the fame price as a (he goat: a ftag 
at the price of an ox ; and a fallow deer was 
efteemed equal to that of a cow; or, as fome 
fay, a he-goat. 
GENUS 
