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siderable export trade in the antlers. According to information 

 gathered by Miss Hone (1933, p. 44), this deer is most numerous in 

 the cork-oak forests of northwestern Tunisia and the pine forests 

 east of Tebessa, which is a strip of well-forested and mountainous 

 country extending from the Mediterranean coast near La Calle, 

 along the Algerian-Tunisian border. Within this area, the forests 

 of Feidja, Gardimaou, and Khroumirie and the region about Feirana 

 are given as specific localities. Joleaud believed that these deer 

 which still lived a few years ago in the region of Negrine must often 

 have gone without drinking, since the few springs in the south of 

 the Nemencha country were constantly surrounded by encampments 

 of natives, thus making another element of an unfavorable nature. 

 Through correspondence with consular offices, a certain amount of 

 information has been gathered as to the present attitude of the offi- 

 cials in the countries where the Barbary Stag still exists, from which 

 it appears that in Algeria the killing of the species is prohibited, 

 as well as in Tunisia. According to the Directeur du Service des 

 Forets in the latter country, it is believed that about 50 deer remain, 

 in the extreme northwestern part, near Tabarka and Ain Draham. 

 Nevertheless, in Algeria a proprietor or tenant of land may legally 

 kill a deer on his own property, provided that it is actually causing 

 or threatening to cause damage, but this permission applies only to 

 land actually having crops or fruit trees on it. Furthermore, the sale 

 during the closed season, of animals killed legally, is forbidden. 

 The Barbary Stag is placed among the species in Schedule A, of 

 the London Convention of 1933, to be protected at all times. Al- 

 though Johnston (in Bryden) , writing in 1899, believed that in this 

 section of Tunisia the stag was actually increasing "considerably" 

 in numbers, Capt. M. W. Hilton-Simpson (in Maydon, 1932, p. 123) 

 reports that they are "so scarce that they may not even be seen in 

 the course of, say, a fortnight on the shooting ground," and Dr. 

 K. Jordan in the same year (1932) wrote that there are "very few 

 specimens left, but protection will no doubt enable the species to 

 recuperate." 



G. M. A. 

 Sardinian Stag 



CERVUS ELAPHUS CORSICANUS Erxleben 

 [Cervus] Corsicanus Erxleben, Syst. Regni Anim., vol. 1, p. 304, 1777. (Corsica.) 



This deer, limited to Corsica and Sardinia, has been greatly 

 reduced by overshooting. 



The general color is darker than in any of the small continental 

 forms. Height of male at shoulder, 800 mm. (Miller, 1912, p. 970.) 



Miller (1912, p. 969) quotes Polybius (xii, cap. iii) to the effect 

 that this stag is not native to Corsica. 



