DEE R, 
4* 
37 - Fallow. Ari pt. hi/}. An. lib. II. hirfolx Klein quad. 25. 
H* _ Cervus dama. C. cornibns 
Platyceros Plimi kb. xi. c. 38. mofis recurvatis compreilis : flim* 
Oppian Cyneg. lib , II. lin. 293. mitate palmata Lin. (yj}. 93. Haf- 
Platogna. Belon obf. 55. fclqidjl. iiin. 290. 
Dama vulgaris five recentionim Dof, Dofhiort Faun.fuec. No. 42, 
Gefner quad. 307. Le Dain de Buff on vi. 161. tab. 
Daniel. Rzaczinjhi Polon. 217. xxvii. Brifon quad. 62. 
Cervus Platyceros, Fallow Deer. Buck. Br. Zool. I. 34. Pontop , 
Raiijyn. quad. 85. Norway. II. 9. Du Halde China 
Cervus palmatus, Dam-tan- I. 313, Paunul.finens. 
D. with horns palmated at their ends and pointing 
a little forward, and branched on the hinder fide ^ 
two fharp and (lender brow antlers, and above them 
two fmall (lender branches. Color of this deer va¬ 
rious, reddifbt, deep brown, white, fpotted. Not 
fo univerfal as the (lag; rare in France and Germany . 
Found in Greece , the Holy Land , and the North of 
China , In great abundance in England ; but, except 
on a few chafes, at prefent confined in parks. M. de 
Buff on fays, that the fallow deer of Spain are almoft 
as large as (lags. None originally in America, What 
are improperly called by that name will be defcribed 
hereafter. Are eafily tamed: during rutting time, will 
conteft with each other for their miftrefs ; but are 
lefs fierce than the (lag: during that feafon, will 
form a hole in the ground, make the female lie 
down in it, and then often walk round and fmell 
at her. Moore fpeaks of a fpecies found on the banks 
of the Gambia , in the interior parts of Africa , near 
Barracunda , called Toncong , which he fays differed 
not in form from the Englijh fallow deer; only that 
ks fize was equal to that of a fmall horfe, and 
weighed 
