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a very old translation of the scriptural ‘‘ Book of Kings,” contained in 
the ‘‘ Leabhar Breac,’’ we find the fallow deer called Bugul ; the hart, 
Fiadh-oige ; and the roebuck, Gabur ; which latter, however, also signi- 
fies a goat. 
‘Gerald Barry, in his “‘ Topographia Hiberniz,”’ when speaking of 
the exceeding fatness of our stags, adds :—<‘‘ By so much as they are 
smaller in the size of their bodies, by so much are they the more surpris- 
ingly set off by their heads and horns.’’ But this evidently refers to the red 
deer. Besides the heads of red deer presented by the Board of Public Works 
to the Academy, great quantities of the remains both of deer and oxen 
have from time to time been discovered upon the borders of our inland 
lakes, as their waters have been lowered, either naturally or artificially, 
during the last few years; and their accumulation in these localities re- 
ceives an elucidation from the following tales, extracted from the ‘‘ Book 
of Lismore,’’ and furnished me by Mr. Curry. 
Fig. 6. 
“Bran Mac Derg, son of the King of Munster, hearing that Cailte, 
‘one of Finn Mac Cumhaill’s champions, to whom allusion has already 
been made, was still living, at a great age, as related by the Finian 
writers, repaired to him to learn the best method of hunting the deer 
with which Finn and his warriors had been acquainted of old. 
‘How do you order your hunting?’ said Cailte to him. ‘ We,’ said 
the® young" prince, ‘ surround the hill, the cairn, or the wood in which 
the deer may be at the time, and sometimes we succeed in killing some, 
