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Two of these are bigger then the rest, which answer to the Stags horns,
growing sometimes to that bigness as to be 5 cubits high, and are adorned
with 25 branches. The Doe has 2 short horns, one being fixt in its forehead
which it uses in conflict with other beasts. These horns are proper only to
the Buck, the Doe having much less and fewer branches. They are commonly
covered with a kind of Wool, which is most frequent after they are cast
and begin again to shoot; so Olaus. In the spring, they begin to sprout,
tender, but rough and full of blood: when they come to a sufficient growth,
they cast their hair in Autumn. The Rain-deer differ from a Stag, that their
feet are thick like a Bulls; hence Olaus took notice of their round hoofs:
when they walk, the joints of their feet make a noise like the clashing of flints,
or cracking of nuts, which is peculiar only to these beasts. Lastly their
color is different from a Stags, for it comes nearer an Ash: besides they are
white not only on their belly but on their haunches, which Damianus
observes does render them more like Asses then Stags, and Zeigler agrees
with him. But I cannot see on what account Olaus attributes a main to this
beast: they have indeed, especially under their necks, hair longer then
ordinary, such as Goats and other beasts have, but nothing agreeable to an horse
main: tis farther observeable that tho they are cleft they do not chew the
cud. Likewise instead of the bladder for their gall they have a black passage
in their liver. This is the picture of one drawn to the life.
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