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antlers. 'Jlie lieio'lit of a fallow deer at the withers 

 is 8 feet, and the length from nose to tip of tail is 

 5 feet 8 inches. The horns of the male bear no bez 

 or bay tine. The brow and tray tines are well 

 developed, and above these the beam is palmated, 

 and at the base of this palmation there is a back- 

 wardly directed point. The horns make their 

 appearance in the summer of the second year, mnch 

 later than those of the red stag. At first the horn 

 is a simple point 2 to 5 inches long. In the next 

 season, when the buck is three years old, the brow 

 and tray tines are developed and the beam shows an 

 inclination to palmate. In the fourth and following 

 years the points on the posterior margin of the palma- 

 tion increase until the sixth year, when they are fully 

 developed and the buck is adult. The horns vary in 

 type just as the pelage varies in colour. The Epping 

 Forest deer, of which we have spoken as having 

 blackish-brown coats, have very poor horns, rarely 

 more than 20 inches long and with a very narrow 

 palm. The New Forest bucks carry horns with 

 from twelve to twenty points, and so little palmation 

 as to make them very like the horns of the stag. 

 Purely wild fallow deer are found in Spain, Portugal, 

 Greece, and North Palestine. Those living now under 

 wild conditions in England in the New, Epping, and 

 Rockingham Forests have been introduced, and are 

 not the direct descendants of native animals as the 

 red deer of Exmoor are. No fallow deer horns are 

 found in recent peat formations; thus there is no 

 evidence that the British fallow deer of Pleistocene 

 times survived the second glacial period. 



