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red summer pelage (the specimens were shot towards the end of March), 

 and that the antlers are comparatively weak, markedly curved, and with 

 the bez-tine generally, if not invariably, wanting. Not impossibly the 

 Spanish deer may prove to be closely allied to, or perhaps identical with, 

 the North African race of the species. As already mentioned, antlers in- 

 distinguishable from those of the typical race are of common occurrence in 

 the fens and some of the other more superficial deposits in the British 



Fig. 19. — Frontlet and Antlers of Red Deer. From an Exmoor specimen in the possession of 



Lord Elphinstone. 



Islands, but those from some at least of the Plistocene beds of both Britain 

 and the Continent appear referable to the Caspian variety. 



Habits. — So much has been written on the mode of life of the red deer, 

 especially in Scotland, that a comparatively short notice will suffice on this 

 occasion. For the following paragraphs I am indebted to Mr. Allan 

 Gordon Cameron, who has had special opportunities of observing Scottish 

 red deer in their native haunts. In the Highlands red deer are found 

 on the open hills, seeking food and shelter in storm-swept glens, and in 

 this respect living under conditions quite different from those natural to 

 the species in other lands. Isolated for centuries from their continental 



