ENGLISH DEER-PARKS. 
A| wy ualeanaces List | of the | Deer-Parks gin Paddocks | of | England. 
| By | Jos iehbar SRS E.Z.S. |. «| Othe ete. | London | Ballantyne, 
Bae & Ca | 1892. [8vo, cloth, BE eas bere s + 4 of advertisements. ] 
GREAT pressure upon our space has hitherto prevented our noticing 
this excellent volume, which partakes both of the character of a 
irectory or census of the cervine population of England and of 
a work on the natural history of the various species which are kept 
in a state of greater or less domestication in the southern half of our 
island. The census portion of the work consists of an enumeration 
of the various parks, classified in the alphabetical order of their 
names under their respective counties. Under each park is given 
northern counties are as follow: 1o in Cheshire, 7 in Cumberland, 
13 in Derbyshire, 4 in Durham, 8 in Lancashire, 7 in Lincolnshire, 
5 in Northumberland, 9 in Nottinghamshire, 4 in Westmorland, and, 
as before stated, 33 in Yorkshire. A list is also given of 50 deer- 
parks described in Shirley’s ‘English Deer Parks’ in 1867, which no 
longer contain deer, 9 of these being in Yorkshire, 2 in Lincolnshire, 
under Lyme Park to the wild white cattle which used to inhabit it, 
and under Chillingham the briefest allusion is made to the fine herd 
which constitutes the great interest of that park. In the case 
of Wollaton, Notts, and Annesley, Notts, however, interesting 
references to their former herds of Wild Cattle are given, and as 
or Gisburn and Burton Constable, Yorkshire, which formerly con- 
tained the cattle, they find no place in this work, not being deer- 
parks, 
From a natural history point of view, the introductory chapter 
is the most interesting part of the book; it gives a few historical 
particulars, notices of places where Red Deer run wild, including 
Martendale Fells in Westmorland, reference to the existence of wild 
oe Deer sparingly in Northumberland, Durham and Cumberland, 
and a series of interesting notes on the life and habits of Fallow- 
- May 1894, 
