The Goto Donana 



43 



attain their highest development. Tliat red deer should be found 

 inhabiting lowlands such as the Goto Donana is wholly ex- 

 ceptional. In Estremadura, it is true, there are wild regions (in 

 Badajoz and Caceres) where deer are spread far and wide over 

 wooded and scrub-clad plains, all these, however, being subjacent 

 to neighl)ourino' sierras, which refug-es are available for retreat in 

 case of need. Nowhere else in Spain, save here in the Goto 

 Donana only, are red deer restricted exclusively to lowlands. 



:^\^ 



'W^. 



0V9 



CONFIDENCE 



This South-Spanish race (the southernmost of all if we except 

 the distinct but limited breed that yet maintains a foothold in 

 North Africa, the Barbary stag, which is white-spotted) differs 

 from Scotch types in their longer faces and slim necks unadorned 

 witli the hairy " ruft'" of harsher climes. Beyond a doubt, when 

 our species- splitting friends arrive in Spain, they will differentiate 

 her red deer (and ibex also) in various species or subspecies, each 

 with a Latin trinomial. Such energies, however, may easily be 



