262 THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD 
to be tame, has been known 
to kill alad. In Scotland 
and on the Continent roe 
deer are usually killed by 
driving, and large bags 
are often made. Even 
within recent times, as 
many as sixty-five roebucks 
and thirteen hinds have 
been shot during a day’s 
driving. Shot-guns are 
employed for this kind of 
sport. Stalking the roe is 
not so much pursued in 
Scotland as it might be. 
It is a first-rate and most 
interesting form of sport, 
and in certain districts the 
rifle might very well be 
substituted for the shot- 
gun. “ Roe-stalking,’ says 9 : ; 
Mr. Millais, ‘* possesses GROUP OF VIRGINIAN DEER (TWO BUCKS, FOUR DOES) 
many charms of its own. These are the common deer of the Eastern United States 
In the first place, you can 
enjoy it at a season when there is no other shooting going on; secondly, it takes you out in, 
the early morning, when all nature is full of life and beauty, and before the heat of the day 
commences; and, thirdly, where the chase of the animal is systematically conducted, as with red 
deer, the nature of the sport is everything that can be desired. I would therefore put forward 
a plea that tenants and owners of part-wood, part-forest lands in Argyll, Inverness, Ross, and 
Aberdeen should turn their attention to stalking the roe in preference to killing them during the 
usual winter wood-shoots.” Roe deer are exceedingly abundant in the great forest regions 
of Germany and Austria-Hungary. In Austria alone, not including Hungary, during the year 
1892, no less than 68,110 of these beautiful little deer were shot on various estates. 
The SIBERIAN ROE, found from the mountains of the Altai and Turkestan to Siberia, is a 
somewhat larger species than its European cousin, measuring from 28 to 34 inches at the 
shoulder. The antlers are also larger, extending to as much as 16 and even 18 inches in 
measurement. As beseems its habitat, the coat of this species is also thicker and rougher 
than is the case with the European roe. Mr. Lydekker gives some interesting particulars 
regarding this animal: ‘ When the snows of November fall, the roe themselves commence to 
collect in herds, which may number from 300 to 500 head, and soon after migrate southwards 
into Manchuria, whence they return about the end of March or beginning of April. On the 
Ussuri, which they must cross, they are at this season slaughtered in thousands by the hunters, 
without regard to age or sex.” 
One other species, the MANCHURIAN ROE, found chiefly in mountainous habitats, whence 
it never descends, should be noted. This is a smaller deer than the Siberian roe, and 
approximates in size and length of horn to the European race. 
PERE DAvib’s DEER 
This remarkable animal, which apparently bears little or no resemblance to any of the other 
deer of the Old World, has been placed by some naturalists between the roe deer and the 
American deer. Its habitat is North China, and, strangely enough, it seems to be unrecognised 
