86 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Professor Canestrini,* and more recently Mortillet,t have given 
some account. In 1870, at my request, Dr. Carlo Boni, subse- 
quently Director of the Museum of Modena, had the goodness to 
send to me at Basle—where I was spending the winter of 1869-70— 
these two fragments for comparison with mine from Olmiitz, when 
Professor Riitimeyer, who also saw them, determined that one of 
them (marked “624 Gorzano”) must have belonged to Cervus 
dama. 
As well as in Moravia, the Fallow Deer seems, in olden times, to 
have existed on the borders of Lower Austria. In Pulkau, not far 
from Eggenburg, south of the Thaya, in an ancient place of 
sacrifice, discovered and described by Dr. Woldrich, were found 
earthen vessels, implements of stone, bone and horn, a bronze 
casting-mould, the remains of the dog, ox, and red deer, and a 
piece of horn that was conjectured to be “the tine of a Fallow 
Deer’s antler.” { 
That the Fallow Deer inhabited the woods of Switzerland in the 
middle ages may be gathered from the following words in the 
Benediction of the monk Ekkehard, of St. Galle, who lived in the 
eleventh century :—“ Imbellem damam faciat benedictio sum- 
mam;”§ and even at a later date, according to a statement in 
Forer’s German edition of Gesner’s ‘ Natural History’ (Heidelberg, 
1606, p. 84), where it is said that “The Fallow Deer is hunted in 
many other places, and is frequently captured in the woods of 
Switzerland and near Lucerne: it is called Dam, Damlin, or 
Damhirsch.” In the Latin edition, however (Hist. An., vol. 15 
2nd ed., Frankfort, 1620), which is now before me, I can find no 
important observations on the appearance of the Fallow Deer in 
Switzerland. The author merely states (p. 308), “Nostra vero 
dama etiam in Europa capitur cum alibi tum circa Oceanum 
Germanicum, ut audio. Germani vulgo vocant Dam, vel Dimlin, 
vel Dannhirtz, vel Damhirtz potius; Itali, Daino, nonnulli Danio; 
Galli, Dain vel Daim; Hispani, Gamo vel Corza.” Moreover, in 
* *Oggetti trovati mae terremare del Modenese, Seconda Relazione: Avanzi 
Organici,’ Modena, 1866. 
+ ‘Matériaux pour I’Histoire Positive et Philosophique de l’Homme,” 3me année, 
eee 
} Woldrich, ‘ Mittheilungen der anthropologischen gesellschaft in Wien,’ vol. iii., 
1873, pp. 13 and 19, and plate iv., fig. 54. 
§ ‘Bened. ad mensas Ekkehardi, Vers. 128. Vide ‘ Mittheil, der Antiquar. 
Gesellschaft zu Zurich,’ iii., p. 111. 
