"It is about the size of the European fallow-deer, and resmebles it in temper and character; the color is brown in the summer and gray-brown in winter; the fawns are spotted with white; the tail white beneath, and carried erect when running; the length of the body is five feet five and a half; the height three to three and a half; the weight one hundred and twenty to two hundred pounds. In its form it is light and elegant, and in its movements exceedingly graceful." — S. G. Goodrich, 1885

Male American Deer

"It is about the size of the European fallow-deer, and resmebles it in temper and character; the color…

"A Roe (Capreolus caprea) is a small species of deer inhabiting Europe and some parts of Western Asia. It was once plentiful in Wales and in the hilly parts of England, as well as in the S. of Scotland, but is now very rare."—(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)

Roebuck

"A Roe (Capreolus caprea) is a small species of deer inhabiting Europe and some parts of Western Asia.…