Class I. DEER. $5 



border on Cornwall and Devonshire, and in 

 Ireland on the mountains of Kerry, where they 

 add greatly to the magnificence of the romantic 

 scenery of the lake of Killarny. 



The stags of Ireland during its uncultivated 

 state, and while it remained an almost bound- 

 less tract of forest, had an exact agreement in 

 habit with those which range at present through 

 the wilds of America. They were less in body, 

 but very fat ; and their horns of a size far su- 

 perior to those of Europe, but in form agreed in 

 all points. Old Giraldus speaks with much 

 precision of those of Ireland, Cervos pr<e nimia 

 pinguedine minus fugere prcevalenles, quanto 

 minores sunt corporis quantitate, tanto pr&cel- 

 lentius efferuntur, capitis, et comuum digni- 

 tate* 



[The rutting time of the old stags, begins the 

 latter end of August or beginning of September, 

 and ends about the 20th of that month : that 

 of the next age, begins about the 10th of Septem- 

 ber, and ends the beginning of October: the 

 younger stags are in rut from about the 20th of 

 September till the 15 th of October, after whom 



* Topogr. Hilernice. c. 19. Lawson in his history of Caro- 

 lina p. 123, mentions the fatness of the American stags, and 

 their inferiority of size to the European. I have often seen their 

 horns, which vastly exceed those pf our country in size, and 

 number of antlers. 



