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THE RED DEER* 



STAG., THE MALE ; HIND, THE FEMALE ; FAWN, THE 



YOUNG. ,r 



RED Deer inhabit the mountainous parts of Scot- 

 land, and range at full liberty, in herds of con- 

 siderable numbers. The animals of largest size 

 are those found in the province of Moray; and if 

 the forests there were duly kept, they would be 

 very numerous. Stags are yet observed, almost in 

 a state of ^nature, amongst the forests and hills of 

 Martindale, in the neighbourhood of Ullswater in 

 Cumberland. They are extinct from the mountains 

 of North Wales; but are yet occasionally to be 

 seen in the New Forest, Hants; in the forest of 

 Exmore; in the woods on the river Tamar, in 

 Devonshire; and amongst the mountains of Kerry, 

 in Ireland. 



In early ages, the beasts of chase had our whole 

 island for their range. They knew no other limits 

 than that of the ocean, nor were subjected to the 



* Cervus elaphus. Linnceus. Le Cerf. J 

 For the description of the Red Deer, see the Synopsis, p. 54, 

 No. 36. 



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