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•'1 „ CBRVVS ElAPHUS . 
DlSTEmUtlON AND EARLY HUNTING 
%0 fislly miderstanri tfee red deer and Its chase it is neces^^try t<> 
«£udy the animal and its distribution in Europe from the earikst 
times until the present day* By nature, the red deer is a forest 
animals inliabitmg, tiie greater part of Europe -where there are 
large woods. It is found as far north -as the Arctic Circle in 
Norway* and at no vei 7 * distant date a few existed on the mam > 
land opposite the Lofoden Islands, There are red deer ItiAfee dense forests 
to the south of St Petersburg* further south they occur near tiie Volga, 
but are now. nearly extinct In the Crimea, from xvhmce, about X 00 years 
many magnIRceiit specimens were sent to Britain." 
^ Red d«ser tend im vmfhig munhers in. the British Islands, France, 
v-Spain., N>orwsy* Eissj-^ia, Austria, and ail its' dependent 
A«is •Mittor, ■ Dag^estati and the 
amd. Corsica, Algeria and Taxiis, 
they in Greece, ItalVj and .Switzer- 
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» mpafaid specks kaowe ns 
^s€ M^ali'but the iMt mhmd and tlw European 
«Secx are so triSis^ thi^i we thmn. 
Q . to Owen, ifeo oldest in Orc^at Bsitatp tMt yfc-ldn Mbum 
red. -cker, is the Red at Newbounie. Frori'n the e^tlf ssge r^prmeMed 
bj stratum, through the iate Fiioceiic axi4 tm- mtcce-f-disg epochs of ? he 
ip»^lr*as.x*ue, thybrk^^^ and the peat mos-.ses until Mstoric times, we 
» . «p 2 ibhidous • 4$i^m .of evidea^ of the abufidaace of the.^ imMo 
in our islands. Remaias ol the Tery large type of red deer, railed 
Owej^ S^rmgy/meroSi, are comparaitTely rarec.Tliey were probably few 
^ ^?fmber,' hasiiig wandered np through M'estern Eriropc from -their 
' whicli tmf roughly he guessed as Persia or So-ath-E5??tOi~^ 
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si’rimi. ol In Britain, w-hldi we may approximately placi? 
IHiocetke Ag&,'red deer were very abundant. Their hopes 
in railway aM canal cuttihg-s.-.aud iv. 
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