This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ... second 1 Garrod, "On the Chinese Deer named Lophotrafus michianus by Mr. Swinhoe," Proe. Zool. Sac. 187C, p. 757. species has a dark iron-grey pelage, and the late Mr. Consul Swinhoe described it as very Goat-like in aspect. Cajrreolus.--The Roe Deer has fairly complex antlers. It is a small Deer and has spotted young ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ... second 1 Garrod, "On the Chinese Deer named Lophotrafus michianus by Mr. Swinhoe," Proe. Zool. Sac. 187C, p. 757. species has a dark iron-grey pelage, and the late Mr. Consul Swinhoe described it as very Goat-like in aspect. Cajrreolus.--The Roe Deer has fairly complex antlers. It is a small Deer and has spotted young. The common Roe Deer, C. caprnea, is a native of this country. It is the smallest of our Deer, and its antlers only have three tines in stags of the third year. It is a singular fact about this Deer that though the pairing season is in July and August, the young are not born until the following May or June, a period which does not represent that of gestation. The germ remains dormant for some time before developing. The Muntjace, Cerrnlus, form a distinct generic type confined to the Indian and the South-Eustern Palaeurctic region. They are small Deer with spotted young, and short one-branched antlers placed upon pedicels as long as themselves. The canines are strongly developed in the males. There are about half-a-dozen species. Cariacus is exclusively American in range, and contains about twenty species. There are or are not upper canines. The young 296 SIMPLE ANTLERS Chap. are spotted. The antlers are occasionally very simple; in C. rufus and a few allies (placed in a special sub-genus Coassus) they are simple spikes without branches. In this genus, and in the nearly allied and also New-World Pudua, the vomer is prolonged backwards and divides the posterior nares into two. The bulk of the species are South American. Pudua, just mentioned, comes from the Chilian Andes. It is a small Deer without canines and with minute antlers. Other generic names have been proposed for various species of American deer. Hydropotes inermis is a sma...
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