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inner surface of the ears and the muzzle being alone differently coloured. 

 Such individuals at any rate show no light rump-patch at this season, but 

 later on in the year the hair in this region becomes huffish, apparently by 

 bleaching. Possibly this bleaching later on in the year may explain the 

 statement as to some roes having a huffish rump-patch in summer, v\'hich 

 is wanting in others. But it is also possible that there may be individual 

 or local variation in this respect. 



In this connection the following extract from a letter written to the 

 author by Sir Arthur Grant will be of interest : — 



" I am now certain that here [Aberdeenshire] some roe retain the 

 white sterns in summer, and some turn yellowish red all over. IVom the 

 New Forest I hear from my friend the Hon. Gerald Lascelles, the deputy- 

 surveyor under the Woods and Forests, that he has but few roes there, 

 which he thinks retain the white. In the forest of Compiegne the 

 Marquis de I'Aigle tells me that the roes retain the white all the year. 

 But in Germanv, in the forests round Wiesbaden, Herr Borggieve, one of 

 the chief forest officials, informs me that the roes are yellowish red all 

 over, except in one district near Minden, iti Hanover, where they turn 

 absolutely black in summer, although in winter they are of the ordinary 

 brownish o-rey colour." 



Both in winter and summer the rt)e shows the same black and white 

 markings on the muzzle ; and as these markings afford one of the best 

 means of distinguishing between the three living species of the genus, 

 they may be noticed in some detail. ()n the upper jaw a dark moustache- 

 like mark runs obliquely from above along the sides of the naked nose to 

 the angle of the moutli, extending to a small degree on to the lower jaw. 

 Between this and the naked area below the nose is a pure vvliitc patcli of 

 considerable relative size on each side, and the whole of the chin is also 

 pure white. 



Both albino and melanistic examples of the roe are far from un- 



