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Such a Fox as lie turns down has probably been 

 shut up ever since it was a small cub and not 

 released until hounds are perhaps in the neighbour- 

 hood. Should an animal like this be lucky enough 

 to escape being killed by hounds his future is not 

 likely to be a very happy one, for he will be any- 

 thing but favourably situated. In the first place, 

 he has never had the chance of learning the ways 

 and means of getting his own living, and, secondly, 

 he is thrown on his own resources at a time of year 

 when the food supply is at its lowest. Conse- 

 quently, he is driven by hunger to pick up all 

 sorts of filth, and there is no wonder, under such 

 circumstances, that we hear so much of mangy 

 Foxes in these days. Litters of cubs turned down 

 in the Summer, nevertheless, and artificially fed, 

 are also sources of mange, 



III. DEER 



I propose to deal in this essay with Red and 

 Fallow Deer, the two most common and best 

 known species in Great Britain. 



Although there are over three hundred parks in 

 England that contain Deer, besides a few spots 

 where they are still found in a wild state, it is sur- 

 prising how little information there is to be found 

 in the many books of natural history and sport 

 concerning their habits. In only about eighty of 



