THE DEEE. 



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CHAPTER V. THE DEER. 



The Red -Deer only occurs wild in the Highlands of 



Scotland, in at least a few wild districts in Ireland, in 



one wood in the Lake Country, at two spots 



eer * in Devon and Somerset, in parts of Mull 



and the Hebrides. In addition to these, there are still 



Range. 



a few head in the New Forest ; and tame herds are 

 kept in some eighty parks, an account of 

 which is to be found in Whitaker's { Descrip- 

 tive List of the Deer Parks and Paddocks of England ' 

 (1892). 



The male, otherwise stag or hart, is, as in other deer, 



