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with the ordinary red deer. The females are no lighter in colour than 

 the males, but are without the gray on the back. The height at the 

 shoulder in the male may be about 3 feet 10 inches, though there was 

 one specimen living in the Bey's menagerie in Tunis up till June 1898 

 which seemed quite as tall as the ordinary red deer. 1 



The present range of this sub-species would appear to be limited to 

 some parts of Morocco, to the extreme east of Algeria, and the west of 



Fig. 48.— Barbary Stag (Cervis ekphus barbarui) in the Woburn Collection. 

 From a Photograph by the Duchess of Bedford. 



Tunisia. As regards Morocco, the present writer merely inserts the name 

 of that country from having read in books that the Barbary deer was 

 found there ; but the only habitat of which he is able to speak with 



1 Vicomte Edmond de Poncins writes of the size and horns of the Barbary deer :— 

 "These stags are rather rare but very fine. I saw lately a head with twelve points and 34 

 broad at the widest between the horns. I never measured one in the flesh, but I make them qi 

 big as a good sambar. Many have been destroyed by natives shooting them for food ; now, I an 

 to say, it is strictly forbidden to shoot them, or they would soon be extinct." — En. 



