NATURAL HISTORY. 209 



THE FALLOW-DEER. 



No two animals can be more nearly allied than tlv 

 stag and the fallow-deer ; and yet no two animals 

 more eagerly shun each other : they are never seen to 

 herd in the same place : it is even rare, unless they 

 have been transported thither, to find fallow-deer in a 

 country where stags are numerous ; they seem to be 

 less robust and less savage than the stag : they are 

 found but rarely wild in the forests, and are bred up 

 in parks, where they may be considered half domestic. 



Of all the countries of Europe, England abounds 

 most in stags : and in this country their flesh is high- 

 ly valued. It seems to be an animal formed for a 

 temperate climate; for it is, never found in Russia, 

 and very rarely in the forests of Sweden, or in any o- 

 ther northern country. And as the fallow-deer is an 

 animal less savage, more delicate, and it may be ad- 

 ded, more domestic than the stag, it is likewise sub- 

 ject to a greater number of varieties. Besides the 

 common deer, and the whits deer, there are several o- 

 ther kinds. The deer of Spain, for example, which 

 are almost as large as the stags, but whose neck is 



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