76 THE MAMMALS, REPTILES, AND FISHES OF ESSEX. 



The list of parks in Essex containing Deer in the year 

 1892 was given in The Essex Review (vol. iii., 1894, p. 136), and 

 may well be appended here. It is derived from A Descrip- 

 tive List of the Deer Parks and Paddocks of En gland y by 

 Joseph Whitaker, F.Z.S. (London, 1892). The number of 

 deer parks appears to be ten, about which there is the follow- 

 ing information : 



EASTON PARK. 700 acres, 450 Fallow Deer, 120 Red 

 Deer. Well-timbered and well-watered ; many fine oaks ; 

 rather flat. 



HATFIELD FOREST. 500 acres, 300 Fallow Deer, zoRed 

 Deer. Flat ; well-timbered ; some enclosed game coverts in 

 the park ; ponds ; rather wild ; oaks very fine. It was till 

 recent times a forest. 



THORNDON HALL. North Park, 341 acres : South Park, 

 373 acres ; 50 Fallow Deer, 40 Red Deer. Timber very fine ; 

 park undulating ; scenery varied and picturesque. A large 

 herd of deer, about 1,200 strong was killed down some 

 few years ago, after the destruction by fire of the 

 mansion. 



WEALD PARK. 300 acres, 80 Fallow Deer, 70 Red Deer, 

 9 Japanese Deer, 2 Roe Deer. Very fine oak and hornbeam 

 timber ; large amount of fern, five to six feet high in 

 places. 



BOREHAM PARK. 300 acres, 1 20 Fallow Deer. 



BELHUS PARK. 300 acres, 100 Fallow Deer (formerly 

 300). This park has the ancient and now uncommon right 

 of " free warren." 



MARKS HALL PARK. 200 acres, 200 Fallow Deer. 



WYVENHOE PARK. 180 acres, 100 Fallow Deer (all 

 black). Fine old oaks (between four and five hundred years 

 old), limes, elms, and beeches ; eighty acres of fern ; four 



