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APPENDIX. 



PAKT I. 



THE LARGE GAME OP SPAIN AND PORTUGAL, 

 WITH NOTES ON OTHER SPANISH MAMMALIA. 



The large game, or caza mayor, of Spain comprises nine or 

 ten animals, several of which have been dealt with specifically 

 in separate chapters. We now describe more particularly those 

 not mentioned elsewhere, and complete a general review of 

 other Spanish mammalia by a few supplementary remarks. 



The beasts of chase in the Peninsula are the red, roe, and 

 fallow deer ; the Spanish ibex and chamois ; wild boars, and 

 bears of two varieties, the wolf and Spanish lynx. 



Red Deer (Gervus elaphus). 

 Spanish : Ciervo, Venado. 



Scattered locally throughout the Peninsula, the Spanish red 

 deer present two distinct types, both differing from the Scotch 

 animal in the absence of the neck-ruff, or mane. The forest- 

 deer of the wooded plains, or cotos, carry small and rather 

 narrow heads, measuring from 24 to 28 inches in length of 

 horn, and some 18 to 24 in beam. 



The mountain-deer, on the other hand, often exhibit a magni- 

 ficent horn-development. We have seen heads from the Sierra 

 Morena, and from the Montes de Toledo, whose massive antlers 

 rival those of the wapiti, reaching 36 and even 40 inches and 

 upwards in length, with a breadth of three feet. 



The rutting season of the red deer commences in the Coto 

 Donana at the end of August (the last quarter of the August 

 moon), and continues till the full moon in September. We 



