Fallow Deer 







If round-horned and palmate-horned deer are kept in the same 

 park, they do not mix or interbreed ; red deer and fallow deer do not 

 cross, or fallow deer and sika deer, but it is impossible to keep several 

 varieties of fallow deer pure in the same park, unless it be divided 

 into sections so that the various herds cannot mingle. 



It is necessary therefore to decide what variety is desired, and 

 keep to that type by shooting off all that vary therefrom. 



I do not know any place where a herd of any of these types, 

 except the black, white, brown, or mixed spotted, can be seen. 



By mixed spotted I mean, not the pure spotted, but deer combin- 

 ing the characteristics of the spotted, brown, chestnut, light bay, etc., 

 being such as are bred at random. 



After the type has been decided on, go out with a Zeiss glass or 

 telescope and look over the herd and decide which ones you want to 

 keep, and then have them caught. 



This is one way, but fallow deer are very bad to catch, as if they 

 are hustled much before they are caught they are very apt to die 

 directly afterwards, and it is very difficult, if not almost impossible, 

 to catch any individual deer out of a herd, especially if they are in a 

 big park with a lot of covert. 



The better way, if you have a herd and want to divide it into 

 several varieties, is to get its members into as similarly coloured 

 groups as possible and place them in separate enclosures, and then 

 gradually to kill off those not corresponding to the type you want. You 

 may, for instance, desire a herd of the spotted variety, and want, say, a 

 herd of a hundred, and have at present only a hundred of all colours. As 

 it does not do to thin the herd down too much, wait till the hinds have 

 dropped their fawns, and the latter are old enough to take care of 



