. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. THE EOEBIVK 63 correspondingly reduced in length as well as tliickness. Its liody-colour is mouse-lirown, verging on grer, whilst the hairy covering is coarse. It may be called David's Muntjac. Very shortly after the above-mentioned skins arrived at Paris, Mr. Michie, of Shanghai, for- warded to Mr. Swinhoe in England another specimen from Ningpo, which, although derived so far esist of Moupin, is almost indistinguishable from that belonging to the latter district. The animal is there known as the " Shanyang," or Wild Goat. It is
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. THE EOEBIVK 63 correspondingly reduced in length as well as tliickness. Its liody-colour is mouse-lirown, verging on grer, whilst the hairy covering is coarse. It may be called David's Muntjac. Very shortly after the above-mentioned skins arrived at Paris, Mr. Michie, of Shanghai, for- warded to Mr. Swinhoe in England another specimen from Ningpo, which, although derived so far esist of Moupin, is almost indistinguishable from that belonging to the latter district. The animal is there known as the " Shanyang," or Wild Goat. It is an undoubted Muntjac, although peculiar in not possessing the glands on tlie forehead found in the more common THE KOEBUCK.* This olegjmt, small, and almost tailless Deer is, like the Eed Deer, a native of Great Britain, as well as of all Northern Europe and Asia below the line of perpetual snow. In Asia the indi- viduals attain a greater size than in Europe. The adult Roebuck stands a little over two feet hio-h. : male, fimale, axd yui at the shoulder. Its colour is a dark reddish-brown in summer, becoming yellowish-grey in the cold weather. There is a large patch of white on the rump. Tlie antlers, which are peculiarly near together at their bases, rarely exceed a foot in length, possessing three points, the rugose iinbranched beam continuing from the considerable burr for half a foot unbranched; then bifurcating fore and aft, the posterior branch again bifurcating. The destruction of the forests throughout Britain has driven the Roebuck farther north, till now it is most common in the north of Scotland, although it still survives in the woods of Westmoreland and Cumberland. Its disposition is wild, shy, and cautious. Its favourite resort is the thick imderwood of forests, living singly or in small companies of a pair with their young, which latter—contrary to what we find in the case of most other Deer —are two or three in number. Its venison makes ve
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