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and one or two stray an finals appear from time 

 to time in the woods and plantations at Swilcar 

 Lawn and elsewhere on Needwood Forest. 



36. Roe Deer. Capreolus capreolus. Linn. 



Bell Capreolus cafrea. 



Sir Oswald Mosley (Natural History of 

 Tutbury y p. 1 7) says: 'Several horns of the roe- 



buck have been found on Needwood Forest,' 

 and then goes on to describe the fallow deer 

 found there before the enclosure ; with this 

 exception I can find no recent reference to the 

 occurrence of this little deer in Staffordshire, 

 and it seems certain that for the last hundred 

 years at least the roe deer has been extinct in 

 the county. 



NOTE. I cannot conclude this paper without expressing my indebtedness to the pages of 

 the Reports and Transactions of the North Staffordshire Field Club (especially the Reports 

 of the section on Zoology compiled by the chairman, John R. B. Masefield, Esq., M.A.) 

 and to the works of Plot, Dickenson (in Shaw's Staffordshire), Garner, Sir Oswald Mosley 

 and Edwin Brown. My thanks are also due for much interesting information to James 

 Yates, Esq., M.R.C.S. ; to J. E. Nowers, Esq. ; and for particulars as to the cattle and deer 

 of Chartley Park to Earl Ferrers' head keeper, Mr. W. Goring. 



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