. The Sportsman's cabinet, and town and country magazine. emale also ofthe rein-deer has horns as well as themale, by which the species is distin-guished from all other animals of thedeer kind whatsoever. When the rein-deer first shed theircoat of hair, they are brown , but in pro-portion as summer approaches, their hairbegins to grow whitish; until, at last,they are nearly grey. They are, how-ever, always black about the eyes. Theneck has long hair, hanging down, andcoarser than upon any other part of thebody. The feet, just at the insertion ofthe hoof, are surrounded with a ring ofwhite. The
. The Sportsman's cabinet, and town and country magazine. emale also ofthe rein-deer has horns as well as themale, by which the species is distin-guished from all other animals of thedeer kind whatsoever. When the rein-deer first shed theircoat of hair, they are brown , but in pro-portion as summer approaches, their hairbegins to grow whitish; until, at last,they are nearly grey. They are, how-ever, always black about the eyes. Theneck has long hair, hanging down, andcoarser than upon any other part of thebody. The feet, just at the insertion ofthe hoof, are surrounded with a ring ofwhite. The hair in general stands sothick over the whole body, that if oneshould attempt to separate it, the skin willno where ajipear uncovered; wheneverit falls also, it is not seen to drop fromthe root, as in other quadrupeds, butseems broken short near the bottom ; sothat the lower part of the hair is seengrowing, while the upper falls horns of the female are made likethose of the male, except that they aresmaller and less branchino:. As in the ^ p^.
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