CHAPTER IX 



DEER, SHEEP, GOATS, PIGS, OSTRICH 

 By H. A. BRYDEN 



THE BARBARY STAG 



MANY, probably the majority of sportsmen, are 

 unaware that the typical red deer is to be found in 

 Africa. Yet this is the case, and the Barbary stag 

 (Cervus elaphus barbarus}^ a very near relative of the 

 red deer of Britain and other parts of Europe, is still 

 to be found in parts of Morocco and Tunis. This 

 fine stag may be said to be merely a local variation 

 of the deer of Europe, with which, in ages of the 

 past, when that continent and Africa were united, it 

 formed no doubt one species. Its nearest ally at the 



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