CLASS MAMMALIA. 77 



acres of ornamental water and a brook intersect the park, 

 forming the boundary between Greenstead and Wyvenhoe 

 parishes. 



LANGLEY'S PARK. 100 acres, 88 Fallow Deer. 



QUENDON PARK. 80 or 90 acres, about 100 Fallow 

 Deer. Some very fine oaks. Has been a deer park for 

 about two hundred years. 



Mr. Evelyn P. Shirley, in his English Deer Parks (London, 

 1867), described three more parks Audley End. Short Grove, 

 and Braxted which now no longer contain Deer. 



Genus CAPREOLUS, H. Smith. 



Capreolus caprea, Gray. ROE DEER. 



Again I must quote Mr. J. E. Harting's valuable paper on 

 " The Deer of Epping Forest" (Essex Nat., vol. i., p. 58) for 

 an account of the Roe as an Essex animal. In it, he shows 

 conclusively from charters, court rolls, and other satisfactory 

 proofs, some of them geological, that the Roe was formerly 

 an inhabitant of the county. It disappeared from the Forest 

 of Essex, apparently before Norden wrote his Description of 

 Essex in 1594. Mr. Harting also details the active part he 

 took, in company with Mr. E. N. Buxton, one of the verderers 

 of Epping Forest, in successfully reintroducing to the Forest, 

 in 1884, this interesting and beautiful creature (see also 

 Field, April 5th, 1884, pp. 487-8). By this most enter- 

 prising restoration, we are enabled to add another species to 

 our Fauna. The Roes are now (1897) doing well, and are 

 supposed to number over twenty. 



In excavating the remains of a Roman building at West 

 Mersea in the spring of 1897, bones and antlers of the Roe 

 Deer were found, with those of the Sheep and the small 

 Celtic Ox. 



