88 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
on the plains of Sindia.* At that time no fewer than 3000 head 
were annually killed in Sardinia. It is remarkable that the inha- 
bitants call it  Crabolu,” a corruption of Capriolo (the Roebuck), 
which does not exist on the island, while the Red Deer is occa- 
sionally met with, more particularly in the east, although it does 
not attain so large a size here as on the Continent.+ According to 
Bonaparte and Cornalia,{ this species of deer is still tolerably 
common on this island. In Spain it appears there are very few 
wild deer now-a-days: at all events, A. E. Brehm, in his ‘ Beitrag 
zur Zoologischen Geographie Spaniens,’ could only recollect having 
seen them in parks.§ On the other hand, Graélls refers to Cervus 
dama as an inhabitant of the Sierra Guadarrama.|| The modern 
Spaniards call this animal “ Gamo” or “ Paleto.” Buffon {] says 
that in his time the Fallow Deer of Spain had longer tails than 
elsewhere, and were nearly as large as the Red Deer. Gérard, in 
his ‘ Faune Historique de |’Alsace,’ already quoted (p. 327), informs 
us that this species of deer still occurs in a wild state in France,— 
for instance, in Nivernais, in the Cevennes, and in the Alps of 
Dauphiné,—but does not say on what authority he makes this 
statement, and Gervais, in his ‘ Zoologie et Paléontologie,’ does 
not mention it. As regards Greece, Blasius, in his ‘Mammalia 
of Germany’ (Brunswick, 1857, p. 455), says, “ Belon found the 
Fallow Deer on the islands of the Grecian Archipelago”; but 
Erhard does not mention it in his ‘ Fauna der Cycladen’ (Leipzig, 
1858). V.d. Miihle, however, refers to it in his ‘ Beitragen zur 
Ornithologie Griechenlands’ (1844, p. 1).** 
From the foregoing data the following conclusions may be 
drawn :— 
1. In prehistoric times the Fallow Deer, with other extinct 
Mammalia, inhabited Lebanon, South Russia, Italy, France, Upper 
Austria, Wurtemburg, Baden, Saxony, Hamburg, and Denmark. 
* «T Quadrupedi di Sardegna,’ Sassari, 1774, pp. 104, 105. 
+ [Both Lord Lilford and Mr. Basil Brooke have observed the Fallow Deer wild 
in many parts of Sardinia. ] 
+ ‘Fauna d'Italia,’ parte prima (Milano). 
§ ‘ Berliner Zeitschrift fiir Erdkunde,’ 1858, p. 101. 
|| (Lord Lilford has seen it wild in Central Spain, near Aranjuez.] 
q ‘ Histoire Naturelle,’ tome vi., Paris, 1756, p. 170. 
** (Lord Lilford has observed wild Fallow Deer in the province of Acarnani, in 
Greece; and in December, 1864, as we are informed by Mr. Sclater, the Zoological 
Society received a small dark-coloured Fallow Deer from the island of Rhodes.} 
