. Arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. SEE w 38 mm IMI I !) R O. A. Tail-less Roe, Hi^. ^a^. p. 109. In its ftead is a larger variety: with horns lilce the laft, and color the fame; only a great bed of white covers the rump, and extends fome way up the back: no tail, only a broad cutaneous excref- cence around the anus. Inhabits all the temperate parts ofRuJ/ia and Sihiria^ and extends as far to the north as the Elk. Defcends to the open plains in the winter. The "tartars call \t Saiga: the Ruffians Dikaja Roza. B. Fallow-deer,////?, ^aa'. N° 44. Are aninials impatient of cold:
. Arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. SEE w 38 mm IMI I !) R O. A. Tail-less Roe, Hi^. ^a^. p. 109. In its ftead is a larger variety: with horns lilce the laft, and color the fame; only a great bed of white covers the rump, and extends fome way up the back: no tail, only a broad cutaneous excref- cence around the anus. Inhabits all the temperate parts ofRuJ/ia and Sihiria^ and extends as far to the north as the Elk. Defcends to the open plains in the winter. The "tartars call \t Saiga: the Ruffians Dikaja Roza. B. Fallow-deer,////?, ^aa'. N° 44. Are aninials impatient of cold: are unknown in the Ruffian empire, except by importation: and are preferved in parks in Sweden*. The Englijh tranflator of Pontoppidan mentions them (perhaps erroneoufly) among the deer of Norway. Fallow-deer feem not to have been natives of Sweden; there are none in the forefts, but which have efcaped out of the king's parks: fuch as thofe near the capital; in the ifle ofOeland; that of IVeJengore, in lake Wetter; and at Omberg. Even Stags are rare in a ftate of nature, and thofe only in the forefts of Smaland, * Du Pratx, ii. 54. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798. London : Printed for Robert Faulder . ..
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