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their appearance for a time on the hilly clowns ahout Bodmin, 

 whence they haunt the woods upon the moors. They are found 

 in greater plenty in the north, betwixt Launceston and Stratton, 

 as if they were apprehensive of wanting room to range if they 

 advanced into the narrow western parts." 



Carew, who published his 'Survey of Cornwall' in 1602, 

 regarded the Ked-deer then in Cornwall as stragglers from the 

 adjoining county of Devon, and no doubt many of them were 

 stragglers ; but Tonkin, in his edition of this ' Survey' published 

 in 1811, observes: — " We have some Ked-deer that breed in the 

 inland and eastern parts of the county, though not very many." 



The fact of their breeding, however, in Cornwall at that date 

 is significant, showing that there must have been a good deal of 

 wild ground well suited to their habits, as there still is in the 

 adjoining county of Devon, where they are strictly preserved for 

 the purpose of being hunted with the well-known Devon and 

 Somerset Stag-hounds. 



Referring to the former existence of Ked-deer in Dorsetshire, 

 Coker states, in his folio Survey of that county, 1732 : — " At the 

 first entrance into the island [Purbeck] lieth a large flatte of 

 barren heathie ground, yet well replenished with Ked-deere, 

 severed from the rest with almost a continual ridge of very high 

 hills." When the Ked-deer ceased to exist in Dorsetshire is not 

 quite certain, but they have long been supplemented in that 

 county by the Roe, which was re-introduced in the year 1800 in 

 the woods around Milton Abbey and Whatcombe, and still 

 flourishes there in some numbers. 



Gilbert White's account of the Ked-deer in Wolmer Forest, 

 Hampshire, is, of course, familiar to every naturalist. In Queen 

 Anne's time, he says, they numbered about 500 head, but some 

 years before he wrote they had dwindled down to about fifty, and 

 he himself saw one of the last that was taken, the survivors of 

 the herd being captured alive by royal command and removed to 

 Windsor. 



In Epping Forest a few Ked-deer lingered down to the first 

 quarter of the present century. See an article on the Deer of 

 Epping Forest in ' The Essex Naturalist,' vol. i. pp. 46 — 62. 



In connection with such details (and many more might be 

 furnished) of the former haunts of deer in England, it would 

 be of interest to give some account of the former method of 



