82 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
the royal park at Wimbledon*), Durham, Yorkshire, Lancashire, 
Leicestershire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Hants, Dorset, 
and Devon, not omitting Wales, where it was to be found in the 
time of Queen Elizabeth. The evidence of its former existence 
in these places has been so fully detailed elsewhere,t that it is 
unnecessary here to repeat it. Suffice it to say that, with the 
exception of Cumberland, where a limited number are established 
near Wigton (Zool. 1887, pp. 882, 383), Dorsetshire (Zool. 1879, 
pp. 120, 170, 209, 262, 801), and Essex (where it was re-introduced 
in 1884, after having been extinct for many years), and certain 
parks, such as Windsor and Petworth, where a few have been 
turned down, the Roe can now only be looked for in any numbers 
beyond the Scottish borders. There it still roams in many a 
covert sufficiently remote from human habitation, and there we 
have had the pleasure of observing it in all its pride of un- 
restrained freedom; now jumping up suddenly from some bed of 
fern in which it had been lying concealed; now stealing away, 
like a shadow before the shooters, or when driven by advancing 
“beaters,” coming with a rush to its doom through some accus- 
tomed pass. In Dorsetshire, too, when pheasant-shooting, it 
has been our good fortune to see sometimes as many as twenty 
or more in a day, of which three or four, perhaps, at intervals, 
would fall to a charge of No. 5 shot at close quarters, making a 
pleasing variety and weighty addition to the game-bag. On such 
occasions it was astonishing to see the almost impenetrable 
covert through which a Roe would dash at full speed without 
any apparent harm, although one would suppose that its large 
and prominent eyes could scarcely escape serious injury from 
the opposing twigs and thorns which barred its way. 
“Tt is a rare thing,” says Colquhoun, in ‘The Moor and the 
Loch,’ “ to take a right and left at Roe; they slip past so quickly, 
and generally in small numbers. I have known many old sports- 
men who have shot them all their lives, and yet never killed a 
couple right and left. During my whole shooting life I have only 
* Cf. Harting, ‘Essays on Sport and Natural History,’ pp. 47, 48. 
+ “On the former Existence of the Roe-deer in England,” Harting, 
‘Essays on Sport and Natural History,’ pp. 38—55. The Roe was at one 
time (1716) to be found in the Channel Islands on the island of Herm (Zool. 
1880, p. 899), but probably only as an introduced species. 
