128 Damine Group 



buttocks below the tail, and the under side of the tail, under-parts, inner 

 surfaces of upper portions of limbs and inner sides of ears white or whitish. 

 In winter the whole pelage of the upper-parts uniformly grayish fawn. 



Owing to long domestication, the fallow deer of the British parks 

 frequently display great variation from this original type of coloration, and 

 a uniformly dark brown breed has been long established, while white or 

 whitish varieties are far from uncommon. Indeed, specimens exhibiting any 

 shade from pure white to nearly jet black may be observed in large herds. 



Fig. 33. — Head and Antlers of Common Fallow Deer. (Rowland Ward, Records of Big Game.) 



As already mentioned, a bez-tine may occasionally be developed on the 

 antlers, and another abnormality is the presence of an additional tine on the 

 front edge immediately above the trez. 1 



The antlers make their first appearance in the stags in the second year, 

 when they are in the form of simple snags, the animal being then known 

 as a pricket. In the third year the brow- and trez-tines show themselves, 

 while the extremity of the beam becomes palmated. In the succeeding 

 year the palmation increases, with strongly marked serrations on the hinder 



1 Sec Brooke, Nature, vol. xi. p. 210 (1874). 



