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According to Mr. Millais the herds on some Scotch estates are much 

 wilder than those in PjigHsh parks, although not apparently more than 

 those ot Epping Forest and the New Forest. Wild fallow deer are always 

 spotted in summer ; and, judging from a specimen imported by Captain 

 J. Elwes, and subsequently turned out in the park at Woburn Abbey, differ 

 but slightly from spotted breed of the New Forest and many British parks. 



In the relative length of the tail, as well as in the presence of a black- 

 bordered white area in its immediate vicinity, the fallow deer resembles 

 the sikas, and differs from all the members of the red deer group. Unlike 

 the sikas, the hairs ot the white area on the buttocks are, however, incapable 

 of being erected and everted ; and the antlers are of an altogether peculiar 

 and distinctive type. 



At the base they are approximately cylindrical, and give off first a 

 brow- and then a trez-tine, above which they flatten out into a large and 

 broad palmation, of which the front edge is smooth, but the summit and 

 hinder border are surmounted by numerous short snags. As a rare 

 abnormality, a bez-tine may be developed between the brow and the trez. 

 In the wild form, as well as in one park breed, the grinmd colour of the 

 summer coat is brilliant fawn, upon which a number of large white spots 

 are irregularly distributed over the back, the upper part of the sides, and 

 the haunches ; a series ot ill-defined white lines bordering this spotted area 

 below and behind. A black line runs down the middle of the hack and 

 tail, and, as already said, the white area on the buttocks is bordered above 

 with black ; the under surface of the tail, the under-parts, and the inner 

 side ot the ears and of the upper portion of the limbs being white. In 

 winter the colour ot the upper- parts is uniformly greyish fawn. The 

 tawns are spotted. A buck stands about 3 feet at the withers. Mr. 

 Millais records a weight of over 1 ^ stone in a Perthshire buck, but this is 

 quite abnormal, 12 stone bein<r a trood weiiiht. According' to the same 

 gentleman, a pair of antlers in the collection of Sir Douglas Brooke measure 



