THE DEER. 



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CHAPTER Y. THE DEEE. 



The Red - Deer only occurs wild in the Highlands of 



Scotland, in at least a few wild districts in Ireland, in 



one wood in the Lake Country, at two spots 



in Devon and Somerset, in parts of Mull 



and the Hebrides. In addition to these, there are still 



a few head in the New Forest ; and tame herds are 

 ^ ^ kept in some eighty parks, an account of 



which is to be found in Whitaker's ' Descrip- 

 tive List of the Deer Parks and Paddocks of England ' 

 (1892). 



The male, otherwise stag or hart, is, as in other deer, 



