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it is fitting that we should pay them every atten- 

 tion. The greatest care is therefore taken to 

 guard them from molestation. Guns are not 

 allowed to be used. The result is seen in unusual 

 fearlessness, especially of many of the birds, such 

 as wild ducks. In the following memoranda on 

 the animals and birds I have limited my observa- 

 tions to those characteristics which may be noted 



ROE-DEER. 



RED-DEER. 



FALLOW-DEER. 



by any observant eye. I have not included in the 

 list the prairie wolf, of which there is a specimen 

 at the Zoological, which was alleged to have been 

 caught in Epping Forest. According to the story 

 which appeared in Land and Water in the summer 

 of 1884, this animal was purchased as a cub by a 

 gentleman living at Leytonstone, from a hay carter, 

 who said that he had caught it with two others in 

 the Forest, and described them as fox cubs. When 



