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upper surface, and the hend and ears are compara- 

 tively short. Such is the usual colouring of the 

 fallow deer_, but there is considerable variation, 

 possibly owing to domestication. The fallow deer of 

 Epping have a blackish-brown pelage. It was said 

 that this variety was introduced by James T, but 



Fig. 48.— The Fallow Deer {Cervus da ma). (Photo, from 

 life by W. S. Berridge.) 



Mr. Harting^ has shown there were black, white, 

 and spotted fallow deer in Windsor Park in 1465. 



The male fallow deer is called a buck, the female 

 a doe, the young a fawn. Fallow deer may be dis- 

 tinguished from red deer mainly by their smaller 

 size, by their colouring, and by the form of their 

 * ' Essays on Sport and Natural History.' 



