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winter the antlers are forked and there are two 

 spikes, and in the tliird winter the three tines of the 

 adult appear. The antlers attain their maximum 

 development from the fifth to the ninth winter, and 

 are then from 8 to 1 1 inches in length. 



Roe deer were widely distributed and very 

 numerous in England and Scotland during the 

 Pleistocene period, but were not indigenous in 

 Ireland. Remains of the roe are found in the 

 Norfolk forests beds, the brick earths of the Thames 

 valley, and the fens of Lincolnshire and Cambridge- 

 s-hire. lu the present day tlie native wihl animal is 

 mainly restricted to Scotland, though a few are still 

 found at Na worth and Netherby in Cumberland and 

 some few in Northumberland and Durham. The 

 native roe became extinct in Wales about the time 

 of Elizabeth. 



In the beginning of the nineteenth century roe 

 were re-introduced to Blackmoor Vale, Dorsetshire, 

 and the New Forest, also to Petworth Park in Sussex 

 and the woods around Virginia Water and Epping 

 Forest. The herd of roe deer introduced into 

 Dorsetshire have increased and have spread west- 

 wards into Somersetshire. Mr. Millais finds no 

 evidence of deterioration from the fossil type, but, if 

 anj^tbing, he sees a slight improvement. 



The same author quotes the ' Liber Eliensis ' 

 (Stewart), a book of statistics drawn up for the 

 information of William the Conqueror, which tells us 

 that, among the natural productions of the Isle of Ely, 

 harts and hinds, roes and hares abounded in its woods. 



Mr. Harting, in his ^Essays on Sport and Natural 



