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Deer. 



Among the deer there would be no difficulty in obtaining still 

 greater success, if the Society possessed sufficient acreage to develope 

 this section of the Vivarium. 



The rein-deer presented by Mr. Domville and Sir Henry Hunloke 

 in 1850, have not only lived in good condition to the present time, but 

 have produced a pair of fawns which are equally thriving. 



The female Wapiti, bred at Knowsley in 1842, has this year pro- 

 duced her fourth fawn, and as the Society retains two of them, it 

 is now to be hoped that this commanding species, of which no other 

 specimens exist in Europe, will increase with rapidity. 



The Javan Rusa deer have also bred, and there is equal probability 

 that the herd of this species will be further extended. 



Ie is worth the attention of those Fellows of the Society who 

 possess deer-parks, that, with ordinary attention, the following species 

 in addition to the preceding, will breed and flourish in any favourable 

 situation in the South of England, and perhaps in any part of the 

 country : — Barasingha (Cervus Duvaucellii), India ; Axis (C. axis), 

 India; Hog deer (C. porcinus), India; Sambur (C. hippelaphus), 

 India ; Sambur {C. anicolor), Ceylon ; Virginian deer (C. virginianus), 



America; Texan deer (C. ?), America; Long-tailed deer (C. 



Lewisii), America. 



In fact, out of thirty-eight known species of deer, it is more than 

 probable that twelve or fourteen might be placed in our parks without 

 difficulty. The objection which has been raised as to the disagree- 

 ment of the different species is necessarily theoretic ; and we may pre- 

 sume that it is, at least, not likely to be a serious obstacle, when 

 we see the perfect accord in which fallow deer and red deer are asso- 

 ciated in Richmond and Windsor Parks, as well as in many other 

 instances. 



Llamas. 



Considerable interest having of late years been attached to the 

 genus Auchenia, the Council have collected a fine series of the ani- 

 mals of which it consists : of these the llama, alpaca, and guanaco 

 have bred freely, and had there been sufficient accommodation for 

 them, three very beautiful herds might have been formed from the 

 present stock. 



Jt may be remarked here that pure guanacos are seldom met with 



