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Mr. Millais tells of a tame buck belonii^inp' to 

 Sir Philip Brocklehurstj which would join the family 

 at breakfast and lie down by his master's chair. 

 Sir Philip could summon the deer in his park with 

 a horn and they would come round him to eat the 

 maize he carried in his pockets. When changing 

 their coats in May and October they do not wallow 

 as the red deer do, but will pull out their hair in 

 mouthful s. Deer get up from the ground as cows 

 do, by getting on to their knees, then raising their 

 hind quarters and standing first on their hind feet 

 and then lifting the front ones, whereas the horse 

 raises the front legs, and standing on the forefeet, 

 raises the hind quarters. 



The New Forest herd of fallow deer had increased 

 so much between 1820 and 1830 that the herd 

 numbered some thousands and became a great 

 nuisance to landowners and owners of common 

 rights. The Government made a bargain to get rid 

 of the deer in exchange for the right to plant 

 10,000 acres in perpetuity free from common rights. 

 At first it was an easy matter to slay the deer, but 

 as their numbers decreased the difficulty of catching 

 them increased. Mr. Lovell undertook to hunt them 

 with a scratch pack of bloodhounds and draft fox 

 hounds with which he succeeded in almost exter- 

 minating the fallow deer, but a few took shelter in 

 adjacent manors and woods, and the newly planted 

 10,000 acres rapidly grew up into a safe sanctuary 

 for this small herd, and has happily preserved the 

 old New Forest race of fallow deer. 



Two species of fallow deer have been found fossil 



