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and, according to the zoologists just cited, confirnaed 
by Mr. Hill’s researches, the Antilles ; they mention 
Martinique in particular as the native country of 
some of their specimens. Jamaica will, for the fu- 
ture, be added to the geographical range ; for, once 
established, they will, doubtless, fulfil my friend’s 
forebodings, and maintain their ground, 
DEER. 
In the upland forests above the Caymanas, not far 
from Spanish-Town, there are occasionally seen small 
herds of Deer in a feral state, the descendents of 
some that had been imported and escaped. Tradition 
imputes their introduction partly to Mr. Dawkins, 
who possessed the Caymanas property about fifty years 
ago, and who at the same time naturalised the Ame- 
rican Quail {Ortyx Virginiana) in the colony, and 
partly to Sir Charles Price, the owner of Worthy Park 
in St. Mary’s, some thirty years earlier, who is said 
to have had several deer running at the Farm, now 
the property of Lord Carrington, within the Cay- 
manas plain. These Deer are reported to have been 
obtained from the Spanish Main, and are considered 
to belong to the species known as the Cervus Mexi~ 
canus, which Humboldt describes as very abundant 
in the small uninhabited islet of Cuhagua ; a small 
Deer, of a brownish red hue, spotted with white, and 
of the latter colour beneath. 
Mr. Hill, to whom I am indebted for all I know 
on the subject, tells me that about the year 1841, a 
buck was obtained in the forests referred to, which 
was slaughtered and sold in the Spanish-Town 
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