54 RECORDS OF BIG GAME 
Head of Fallow Deer Buck. 
The FALLOW DEER (Cervus [Dama] dama). 
Antlers normally without a bez, but with a trez-tine, above which 
the beam is palmated, with numerous snags on the hind edge. Coat 
spotted with white in summer (except in the black breed), with a black- 
bordered white area in the neighbourhood of the long tail. Height at 
shoulder about 3 feet; weight about 140 lbs. clean.! The original 
distribution includes Greece, Spain, Portugal, Anatolia, Rhodes, Sardinia, 
Asia Minor, Northern Palestine, and North-Western Africa, but the 
species has been introduced into Great Britain and some other countries. 
In Asia Minor wild fallow deer are found along the south coast as far 
as Adana, and at one spot in the interior; whether they still exist in 
North Africa is doubtful. 
Length s ne “ 
“Hie geeetee’ tee age, Bone eae Locality. See 
curve. 
32 4h 18 28 I2+ 10 54+. Woburn ; . Duke of Bedford. 
231 5 eae Ses 30 jj ? Sir Victor Brooke’s Collec- 
tion. 
1 Black specimen shot by W. Winans, September 1909, weighed 240 lbs. 
* Recorded by J. G. Millais (British Deer and their florns). 
