THE VIRGINIAN FALLOW-DEER. 
CERVUS VIRGINIANUS. GMEL. 
Frw and strongly marked as are the species of Deer 
cultivated in our parks, they give name to a genus of 
the Ruminant Order as natural and almost as extensive 
as that of the Antelopes, and still more widely distri- 
buted over the surface of the habitable globe. Setting 
aside the great Australian Continent and most of the 
smaller islands, in which no species of either group has 
yet been observed, Deer of various kinds are met with 
in every part of the world, with the single exception of 
Southern Africa, the head quarters of the Antelopes, 
whence they appear to be totally excluded by the more 
favoured race. In those regions where they abound, 
the savage in his state of nature, the tenant of the 
wilderness in his first stage of civilization, and the tra- 
veller in his pursuit of knowledge through the unexplored 
