Red Deer 
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Variety of food, and plenty of it, are essential to the raising of first-rate stock ; and where 
the range is ample, as in parks like Melbury, Savernake, Whittlebury, Colebrooke, 
HEAD OF AN ALBINO STAG, WELBECK 
Drummond Castle, and several others, that which is commonly described as “ a clumsy 
and park-fed ” beast is nowhere to be met with. In such enclosures we see only the 
wild stag in full perfection of form and vigour. If certain picked stags I have lately seen 
at Melbury were killed in Athole Forest, or Colebrooke deer were slain in Muckross, I 
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