XXIV 

 JAPANESE DEER 



'T^ H E fact of recently having seen in the 

 ^ Shooting Times a short paragraph 

 about that handsome Httle animal, the 

 Japanese deer {Cervus Sica), has reminded 

 me that this is an animal undeservedly 

 neglected by British sportsmen, of whose 

 attention it is, in my opinion, more worthy 

 than the indigenous roe-deer, an animal, 

 however, whose cause I am never tired of 

 pleading. That the Japanese deer is 

 eminendy suited to acclimatisation in Great 



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