v56l DEER. Class I. 



none but the prickets are in rut, and the whole 

 season terminates by Nommher. The young 

 hinds come into heat later than the old. Both 

 stag and hind are supposed to be of an age to 

 engender at eighteen months. The hind carries 

 her young rather more than eight months, and 

 produces mostly one, sometimes two at a birth. 

 Stags seldom live longer than thirty or thirty five 

 years, although many authors have attributed 

 to them a much greater degree of longevity. 

 The fallow-deer does not begin to rut till near 

 three weeks after the stags, and exactly in the 

 same order, the old bucks first and the prickets 

 last. They also drop their horns later in the 

 same proportion.] M. T.* 



We have in England two varieties of fallow- 

 deer which are said to be of foreign origin : the 

 beautiful spotted kind, and the very deep brown 

 sort, that are now so common in several parts 

 of this kingdom. These were introduced here 

 by king James I. out of Norway, '\ where 

 he passed some time when he visited his in- 

 tended bride, Anne of Denmark.'^ He ob- 



* The above paragraph, and the notes marked by the initials 

 M. T. were communicated to INIr. Pennant by his vaUied frier>d 

 Marmaduke Tunstall, Esq. Ed. 



f This we relate on the authority of Mr. Peter ColHnson. 



X One of the Welsh, names of this animal {Geijr Danys, or 

 Danish goat) implies that it was brought from some of th^ 

 Danish dominions. Ed. Llwyd. Ph. tr. No. 334. 



