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and a few in the New Forest, but Mr. Millais doubts 

 if these are really indigenous animals. 



The description given by Gilbert White of the 

 wild deer in Woolmer Forest, in Hampshire, will be 

 familiar to his readers. 



The heads of the Exmoor wild stags are very 

 different from the heads of Highland wild deer. 

 There is a grace and elegance in the form of the 

 Devonshire antlers which makes them peculiarly 

 fascinating. 



Sheep farming has not paid recently in Scotland 

 as it did in the years 1840—1870, consequently there 

 has been considerable re-afforesting. There are now 

 about two million acres of deer-forest in the counties 

 of Aberdeen, Argyll, Banff, Bute, Caithness, Forfar, 

 Inverness, Perth, Ross, and Sutherland. 



In Ireland the distribution of wild deer is now 

 limited to the wilder parts of Connaught and tlie 

 district around the Lakes of Killarney. There is a 

 white or albino variety of the red deer in a few 

 parks in England. They have pink noses and blue 

 or yellow eyes. 



Fallow Deer (Cervus dama, Linn.). 



'J'liis deer is smaller than the red deer. Its 

 summer coat is a rich fawn or chestnut, spotted 

 with white; a black line runs along the top of the 

 l)ack and through the tail, and a very distinct white 

 horizontal line crosses each flank. In winter the 

 spots disappear, and the animal is a uniform greyish 

 colour. The tail is long and white except on the 



