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further mischief behind them. Since then nearly all 

 those first confined have been destroyed, and now 

 another herd is enclosed as suspect. But this is not 

 the whole extent of the mischief. Isolated cases have 

 appeared in the park ; and if these increase it will be 

 difficult to know what further precautions can be taken, 

 for the season is at hand when the old herds are broken 

 up, and the stags join the hinds for some time." The 

 disease seems gradually to have been extirpated by 

 shooting down all suspected animals. 



Though so many have been lost there are still more 

 than 1 200 deer left in the park, both red and fallow, 

 and few parks contain a larger stock in proportion to 

 their size. It was once supposed that the two species 

 could not be kept together, and in some places, as at 

 Grimsthorpe and Badminton, they are still separated. 

 But at Richmond they live together peacefully enough, 

 and I have seen the red and fallow stags feeding in the 

 same herd. The fallow are true woodland deer, and 

 their colour exactly matches that of the dead bracken ; 

 the red deer prefer the more open ground. Though 

 the red deer of Richmond do not reach the great 

 size of those in Windsor Forest, many of them are 

 above the average of those in a Scotch forest. 



Every year the largest red deer stags are caught and 

 removed to Windsor Park, in case they should prove 

 a source of danger to the public in the rutting season. 

 Their capture is an interesting and exciting scene. In 

 January, 1894, some twenty stags, all with large 

 antlers, were in the large paddock or " purlieu," which 



