RECORDS OF BIG GAME 



Head of Fallow Deer Buck, from a specimen belonging to Mr. J. Whitaker of Rainworth. 



FALLOW DEER (Cervus dama). 



Antlers normally without a bez, but with a trez-tine, above which 

 the beam is palmated, with numerous snags on the hinder 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 1 40 Ibs. 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. 



Length 



on out- Circum- Tip to Spread 

 side ference. Tip. inside. 

 curve. 



Points. 



Width 

 of Palm. 



Locality. 



32 



2 -30 



44 

 5 



4i 



iS 



28 



12+10 



234 261 



30 

 10 + 9 



54 



7 



44 



Woburn 



Owner. 



Duke of Bedford. 



? Sir Victor Brooke's Collec- 



tion. 

 Drummond Castle, J. G. Millais. 



Perth 



1 Recorded by J. G. Millais (British Deer and their Horns). 

 ' 2 Weight of antlers, 8 Ibs. i oz. on skull, no lower jaw (Millais, op. cit.). 



