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breed has been long estal)lislied, while white or whitish 

 varieties are far from uncommon. 



Good antlers measure from 25 to 37 inches along the 

 front outer curve, with a basal girth of from 4 to 5^ inches, 

 and a tip-to-tip interval of from 12 to 30i^- inches. A bez-tine 

 may occasionally be developed on the antlers, and another 

 abnormality is the presence of an additional tine on the front 

 edge immediately above the third tine. The antlers make 

 their first appearance in the second year, when they are in 

 the form of simple snags, the stags being then known as 

 prickets. In the third year the brow- and bez-tines show 

 themselves, while the extremity of the beam becomes 

 palmated. In the sixcceeding year the palmatiou increases, 

 with strongly marked serrations on the hind border ; and in 

 the fifth season the antlers have attained nearly their full 

 dimensions, although the palmation and its posterior snags 

 are not completely developed till the succeeding season. 

 The antlers are shed somewhat earlier in spring than those of 

 red deer. 



The distributional area of the species is co-extensive with 

 that of the genus, exclusive of Persia. Wild fallow deer 

 inhabit a small area at the south-west end of the Sea of 

 Marmora and the whole south coast of Asia Minor as far as 

 Adana, inclusive of the Taurus range. In western-north 

 Africa they are very rare and local. 



693, «., h, rJ. Three frontlets, Avith antlers. England. 



1^0 hist or y. 



693, Z,'. Skull, female. England. A^ history. 



43. 12. 29. 4. Skin, mounted. Italy. 



Pimhased (Lefhbre), 1843. 



46. 10. 23. 11. Skin, mounted. England. 



Purchased {Baker), 1846. 



50. 2. 5. 1-46. Forty-six antlers. New Forest, Hamp- 

 shire. Presented hy Mrs. Smyth, 1850. 



50. n. 13. 15. Skin, with antlers. England. 



Purchased, 1850. 



* * * * Skin, mounted. England. 



Purchased (Leadheater). 



67. 4. 12. 234-235. Two skulls, with antlers. Conti- 

 nental. Lidth de Jeude Collection, purchased, 1867. 



