In England fallow deer have been wild for centuries in Epping as well as in the New 
Forest. Whilst the latter are fine, Mr. Lascelles tells me the Epping deer are few and 
degenerate in both head and body. In Rockingham Forest Whitaker also states that a 
few still exist. 
During the last fifty years fallow deer in a wild state have increased greatly in Scotland, 
and though none were turned out earlier than the present century, in Perthshire at any rate, 
they are now quite regarded as old settlers. I cannot obtain any precise date as to their 
introduction into the Dunkeld and Athole woodlands, but hearsay places it at about seventy 
years ago. During an autumn and winter residence of eighteen years in the Dunkeld 
district I have had frequent opportunities of seeing and hearing all about the wild fallow 
SHOWING HOW FALLOW DEER BUNCH CLOSE TOGETHER WHEN ALARMED 
deer. Formerly they ranged as far north as Blair-Athole, but they are now, I think, seldom 
found north of the Logierait wood at Ballinluig. Their chief home is the big wood near 
Dunkeld and east to the Loch of Cluny and Lochs of the Lowes, south as far as Murthly, and 
east as far as Rohallion. In this district of about ten square miles they are found in small 
parties, and keep well to the woods, being exceedingly cunning and shy. Macintosh, the 
Dowager Duchess of Athole’s keeper, kills a good number annually, and Mr. Cox tells me 
there are now over thirty at Snaigow, where they have been preserving them for some years. 
These Dunkeld deer are both of the light spotted and black type. The next place where 
they have been wild for a considerable time is Dornoch wood in Sutherland. There I have 
also seen them ; they are, however, very poor creatures, owing to wretched feeding and 
interbreeding, and carry miserable heads. A few wild fallow deer are also now found 
at Rosehall and Auchnashellach in Sutherlandshire, Kinloch-Luichart and Inchbae in 
Ross-shire, a few places in central Argyle, and Drumlanrig in Dumfriesshire. 
It is difficult to obtain much information about wild fallow deer in Ireland, and I know 
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