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remarks made under the head of the red-deer will, in a 

 great measm^e, apply ; and I need not dwell upon the par- 

 ticular respects in which a difference has been observed 

 further than to note that the fallow-deer not unfrequently 

 has two fawns, and occasionally three, while the red-deer, 

 as already stated, has very rarely more than one. 



Modern instances, in which Fallow-deer have been 

 allowed to range freely over unenclosed ground in England, 

 are probably rare. They are seldom seen beyond the 

 limits of a park paling. I may therefore mention one such 

 instance. Longcroft, in his " Topographical Account of 

 the Hundred of Bosmere in the Co. Southampton " (1857), 

 tells us (p. 27) that " the Thicket, Stock-heath, and Leigh 

 Green are the common wastes of the Manor of Havant. 

 The former is a large tract of land containing about 800 

 statute acres, was formerly a chase or privileged place for 

 deer and beasts of the forest, and till within the last 

 thirty years {i.e., till 1827) a herd of Fallow-deer ranged 

 freely over its uncultivated space. These were preserved 

 by the Bishops of Winchester, who appointed keepers and 

 took every care to keep up the stock. There being, how- 

 ever, no park or enclosure, the deer strayed away into the 

 neighbouring lands, and were gradually killed down." 



The Koe-deer, one of the most graceful and attractive of 

 forest animals, is in this country almost entirely confined 

 to Scotland. I say almost, for in a certain part of Dorset- 

 shire, where this species has been re-introduced, it not 

 only exists, but has increased and multiplied. That it was 

 at one time plentiful in many other parts of England there 

 is abundant evidence to show. I have notes of its former 

 existence in the counties of Northumberland, Durham, 

 Cumberland, Lancashire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, 

 Hants, and Devon, as also in Wales, where it is said to 

 have existed until the time of Elizabeth. Li Cumberland 

 it certainly survived until 1633, if no later ; and in North- 

 umberland the last roe-deer is reported to have been killed 

 near Hexham, in the reign of George I. (1714 — 1727). 



In Dorsetshire it was re-introduced in 1800 by the late 

 Lord Dorchester, who turned out a few pairs in his woods 



