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attain their highest development. That red deer should be found 
inhabiting lowlands such as the Coto Domana is wholly ex- 
ceptional. In Estremadura, it is true, there are wild recions (in 
Badajoz and Caceres) where deer are spread far and wide over 
wooded and serub-clad plains, all these, however, being subjacent 
to neighbouring sierras, which refuges are available for retreat in 
case of need. Nowhere else in Spain, save here in the Coto 
Dofiana only, are red deer restricted exclusively to lowlands. 
CONFIDENCE 
This South-Spanish race (the southernmost of all if we except 
the distinct but limited breed that yet maintains a foothold in 
North Africa, the Barbary stag, which is white-spotted) differs 
from Scotch types in their longer faces and slim necks unadorned 
with the hairy “ruff” of harsher climes. Beyond a doubt, when 
our species-splitting friends arrive in Spain, they will differentiate 
her red deer (and ibex also) in various species or subspecies, each 
with a Latin trinomial. Such energies, however, may easily be 
