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Cervus cornubus ramofis teretibus , summitatibus palmatis.I7je Stagy with the horns ramose and cylindrky and their

tops palmated.

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This is a large and very beautiful species; it is not inferior to the elk in size orstrength, but it greatly exceeds it in form, and has all the appearance of the deer-kind ; it is of the size of a small horse, but it’s shape is exactly that of the reddeer : the head is oblong, large, and gradually smaller from the region of the ears tothe snout, where it is not so obtuse as most of the deer-kind : the eyes are not large ;the ears are moderately long, and resemble those of the common or fallow deer inshape : the horns are very large, and very beautiful; they are of a middle kind, be-tween those of the stag and of the elk : they rife with a very large cylindric andstrong trunk, which is continued to a great height, as in the stag, and in the famemanner as in that species fends off it’s ramifications, but toward the top it spreads intobreadth, and becomes palmated so, as in the whole to exceed all the other horns ofthe deer-kin,4 in beauty.

The neck is short, but very strong; the breast and shoulders are very large, andthe whole body seems calculated for extraordinary strength: the legs are long and veryrobust; the tail is longer, in proportion, than in the stag; the hoofs are divided inthe usual manner : the colour is a tawny brown, with an admixture of a ferrugineousred. .

This is a native of the frozen regions; there is no country so far north as not to af-ford it. It is calculated for living in regions where the common herbage cannot grow,for it will feed on the moss of mountains, and branches of trees. It is of vast use tothe inhabitants of the northern countries, as a beast of draught. Authors call itRangifer .

Cervus cornubus ramoss compreJJtSy summitatibus palmatis .

!The Cervus y with ramosey comprejsed hornSy palmated at

top .

The MI-LE Deer.

This is a very beautiful species; it perfectly resembles the stag or red deer in form,but is much smaller, and exceeds not only that, but every species, in beauty: the headis oblong, rounded, and obtuse; the eyes are large and prominent ; the ears are mo-derately long and patulous: the neck is robust, and moderately long; the body is to-lerably bulky and rounded ; the tail is short; the legs are long, slender, and yet strong :the horns approach more in figure to those of the rein-deer, than of any other species:they are large at the base, and run up a great way with a bulky stem; but this is notrounded, as in the rein-deer, but compressed at the top ; they are divaricated andpalmated.

This is frequent in our parks, where we have a great many varieties of it in regardto the colouring, all which are, however, from the fame original species. All thewriters on quadrupeds have described it; they call it Cervus Platyceros and Dama.

Cervus cornubus ramossy teretibusy ereBis. The

!The Cervusy with ramosey cylindrky and ereB horns .

This is the smallest of the Cervus-kind; it is considerably lest than the fallowdeer: the head is obtuse and oblong; the eyes are small, but prominent; the ears aremoderately long, and very patulous: the horns are like those of the common deer,except that they are not at all palmated at the extremities, but are all the way taperand divided ; they also send off a number of shoots on the sides, and are rougher onthe surface, than those of any other species: the neck is short and thick ; the bodyis lest corpulent than in any other species, and the legs are slender, and very beautiful.