222 AMERICAN GAME, 
even and more stately than our deer, with branched 
antlers exactly similar to those of our great western Elk, 
though of inferior size. : 
Second, the Fallow Deer, the species usually kept ina 
semi-domesticated state in the parks of the nobility and 
gentry, both as an ornament to the scenery, and as an 
article of luxury for the table. This is a beautiful and 
graceful creature, far less stately than the Red Deer, or 
the denizen of our forests, but slightly and symmetrically 
moulded, and the very beaw ideal of grace and airy 
motion. It has flattened or palmated horns, about mid- 
way in form between those of the Moose and Cariboo, or. 
American Reindeer, though, of course, proportionally 
smaller. In color, the Fallow Deer differs materially 
from all the other species, and is itself by no means 
uniform, some individuals being almost black, and others 
nearly white; the majority are, however, beautifully 
dappled, and some pied, with tints of brown fawn color 
and yellowish white. 
The Fallow Deer is not believed to be indigenous to 
Great Britain, nor indeed to Europe, being, I imagine, 
of oriental origin ; nor is it found any where in a state 
of nature or at large; being confined exclusively in 
parks or chases of more or less extensive range, often 
including large tracts of forest land; and it has been 
observed that the wilder the character of the park, and 
the more broken and forest-like the nature of the soil, 
especially when it produccs heather or fern in abun- 
