Archive image from page 284 of The deer of all lands;. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct deerofalllandshi00lyde Year: 1898 European Roe 225 out any white on the rump, but paler on the under-parts ; a blackish streak across the hairy portion of the muzzle, cutting the hinder part of the nostril and running to the angle of the mouth, and some small whitish markings in this region ; front of face grizzled gray, darkest below the eyes ; late in the season a buffish rump-patch produced, apparently by fading of the hair. Winter pelage very much thicker and c
Archive image from page 284 of The deer of all lands;. The deer of all lands; a history of the family Cervidæ living and extinct deerofalllandshi00lyde Year: 1898 European Roe 225 out any white on the rump, but paler on the under-parts ; a blackish streak across the hairy portion of the muzzle, cutting the hinder part of the nostril and running to the angle of the mouth, and some small whitish markings in this region ; front of face grizzled gray, darkest below the eyes ; late in the season a buffish rump-patch produced, apparently by fading of the hair. Winter pelage very much thicker and coarser ; general colour speckled yellowish gray-fawn, the hairs being gray at the base and rufous at the tips ; a patch of pure white on the rump, including the region of the tail, but not extending markedly on to the rlank ; head, with the exception of the markings on the face, uniform grizzled gray. The metatarsal tuft is darker than either summer or winter coat. Albino varieties of the roe have been recorded from Scotland and Germany. Ten or eleven inches is about the normal length for fair-sized horns, the maximum recorded by Mr. Rowland Ward being 13 inches. A pair from Austria measuring 15- inches in length are, however, mentioned in Bell and Alston's British Quadrupeds. Occasion- ally specimens are met with in which the front, or lower prong of the main fork is divided, thus producing four tines ; and malformed antlers are of very frequent occurrence. The first antlers form a simple spike, and the second pair are forked once, with the hinder prong the longer ; the third pair being three-tined. Young roes are fully spotted with white. Distribution.—In suitable localities over the greater part of Europe as far as and including the Caucasus, and probably Asia Minor, but the exact easterly limits not determined. Although unknown in Ireland, the species occurs in England and Scotland, the south of Sweden, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Spain, Tuscany, Greece, Turkey, a
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