GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE FALLOW DEER. 87 
both the Latin and German editions of Gesner the Fallow Deer is 
unmistakably portrayed. 
According to the marginal notes on Daniel Spekle’s excellent 
map of Alsace there were still Fallow Deer in Wasgau as late as 
1576.* In the neighbourhood of Rome, in a postpliocene travertine 
on the heights of Monte delle Gioie, numerous fragments of antlers 
of the Fallow Deer have been found with remains of Hyena spelea, 
Cervus tarandus, Rhinoceros megarhinus,t &c. 
Finally, it may be observed that representations of the Fallow 
Deer are found carved on Assyrian monuments, and with such 
characteristic accuracy that it is impossible to confuse them with 
those of any other species. We would recommend the reader to 
examine the beautiful plates, Nos. 35 and 53, in Layard’s ‘ Monu- 
ments of Nineveh.’ Representations of this species are also to be 
seen in the pictures on the walls of Egyptian tombs, as for example 
at Beni-Hassan. The hieroglyphical name is “ hanen.” { 
We will now consider the present geographical distribution of 
Cervus dama. 
This species is still found in a wild state in Asia Minor. Canon 
Tristram speaks of its occurrence near Mount Tabor, in Palestine, 
and in the woods between this mountain and the gorge of the 
Litany River, and he once met with it himself “about ten miles 
west of the Sea of Galilee.”§ The late Prof. Ed. Lartet had pre- 
viously found teeth of this species of deer in the bone-heaps of 
Lebanon.|| According to Hartmann, “The Fallow Deer inhabits the 
fertile valleys of the deserts of Africa and the borders of the culti- 
vated parts of Tunis, Tripoli, Barqah, as far as Wadi-Nahtn.” 7] 
Gervais, in his ‘ Zoologie et Paléontologie Frangaise’ (2nd edit., 
p- 145), records its presence in the neighbourhood of La Calle, in 
Algiers, but Loche, in his ‘ Hist. Nat. des Mammiferes de ]’Algérie’ 
(Paris, Bertrand, 1867), says it is now seldom met with in that 
province. In the island of Sardinia, in Cetti’s time, there were large 
numbers of Fallow Deer on every part of the island, and especially 
* Gerard, ‘ Faune historique de l’Alsace,’ Colmar, 1871, p. 328. 
+ Trutat et Cartailhac, Materiaux pour l’Histoire de 1]Homme,’ 1869, p. 299. 
+ Robt. Hartmann, in Brugsch ‘Zeitschrift fiir Agyptische Sprache und Alter- 
thumskunde,’ Jahrgang ii., 1864, p. 21. 
s «Report on the Mammals of Palestine,’ Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, p. 66. 
|| ‘Bulletin de la Societé Géologique de France,’ xxii., p. 542. 
q ‘The Geographical Distribution of existing wild Mammalia of North-Kast 
Africa,’ in the ‘ Berliner Zeitschrift fur Erdkunde,’ 1868, p. 252. 
