300 JAPANESE DEER 



almost, if not quite, exterminated on the 

 larger island, but is pretty plentiful on the 

 northern one. Unborn fawns are considered 

 by the Japs an especial delicacy — a fact 

 which accounts for such wanton destruction 

 of does. They are also found in Northern 

 China, and from the same country come the 

 allied Manchurian deer, and Dybowski's 

 deer. Another relative is the deer of 

 Formosa ; and lastly we have the Caspian 

 deer, about w^hich very little is yet known, 

 which completes the group. 



Japanese deer are always on sale at such 

 places as Cross's and Jamrach's, but can 

 probably be obtained cheaper by application 

 to the head -keeper of such parks as they are 

 kept in. The very qualities {i.e,, their stick- 

 ing to the woodlands) which cause them to 

 give such poor sport in their native countries 



