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THE COMMON FALLOW-DEER. 
Dama vulgaris. — Gesner. 
. PLATE VII. 
Dama vulgaris, Gesner — Cervus Dama, Auciorum—Fal- 
low-Deer of Pennant, Shaw, Bewick, ^c. 
This beautiful and common adornment of our 
English parks is now scarcely to be met with in a 
truly wild state. There are a few places where the 
enclosures have, through time, been broken down, 
and the deer run at large without food or shelter in 
winter, and from thence they have occasionally 
straye<l into such parts near as are wild, extensive, 
and wooded. They are said to be found wild in 
Moldavia and Lithuania ; but, on the Continent, ge- 
nerally are kept in parks as in England. In the olden 
time, they were royal property, extensive chaces or 
forests were devoted to them alone, and property of 
all kinds disregarded, to make room for the keeping 
up and pursuit of those animals. With the advance 
of civilization and agriculture, less bounds were al- 
lotted to them, and, as always happens, the wild 
animals gave way to cultivation. The parks where 
