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These animals vary considerably in colour. They are generally of 

 a reddish brown, on their upper parts, and white beneath. Sometimes 

 dark or blackish brown ; sometimes pale or yellow brown ; and 

 instances have occurred of Stags being perfectly white. W. B. 



Found in the mountainous parts of Scotland, in the Forest of Mar- 

 tinclale, Cumberland, the New Forest, Hampshire, in the woods on 

 the river Tamar in Derbyshire, and amongst the mountains of 

 Kerry, in Ireland. 



Cervus cornibus ramosis totis teretibus recurvatis. 

 Cervus elaphus. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. i. p. 176. 

 Erxleben, Syst. regn. animal, gen. 30, sp. 3, p. 301. 



Cervus elaphus. Stag Turton,i. p. 108. Kerr,p. 298. 



Cervus. Brisson, regn. animal, p. 86. Gesner, p. 

 326. Ruysch, i. pa. 1, p. 58. Raii. Syn. quad. p. 84. 



Cervus nobilis, ramis teretibus, omnibus notus. Klein, 

 quad. disp. p. 23* 



Le Cerf. Buff. Sonn. xxiy. p. 66, tab. 4, 



Le Cerf commun. Cuv. Tab. Element, p. 160. 



Stag. Penn. Quadr. i. p. 86. Penn. Brit. Zool. i. p. 

 41. Shaw's Gen. Zool. ii. p. 276, tab. 177.- Bing, 

 Anim. Biog. 3d edit. ii. p. 36. 



37. THE FALLOW DEER. Horns branched, recurved, 

 compressed, summits palmate. Cervus dama. Linn. 



In size smaller than the Stag. Horns flatted, m some parts, to the 

 breadth of more than a hand, and divided into processes only down 

 their outside. An antler, or simple slender process, rises from the 

 base of each horn ; and there is a similar one at some distance above 

 the first ; both pointing forward. In general form of body, the Fal- 

 low and the Red Deer have a great resemblance to each other. 



Colour brownish bay, more or less deep on the upper parts; and 

 whitish beneath, on the insides of the limbs, and under the tail, which 

 is generally bounded, on each side, by a descending streak of black. 



D 4 Sometimes 



