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remarks made under the head of the red-deer will, in a
great measure, apply; and I need not dwell upon the par-
ticular respects in which a difference has been observed
further than to note that the fallow-deer not unfrequently
has two fawns, and occasionally three, while the red-deer,
as already stated, has very rarely more than one.
Modern instances, in which Fallow-deer have been
allowed to range freely over unenclosed ground in England,
are probably rare. They are seldom seen beyond the
limits of a park paling. I may therefore mention one such
instance. Longcroft, in his "Topographical Account of
the Hundred of Bosmere in the Co. Southampton" (1857),
tells us (p. 27) that "the Thicket, Stock-heath, and Leigh
Green are the common wastes of the Manor of Havant.
The former is a large tract of land containing about 800
statute acres, was formerly a chase or privileged place for
deer and beasts of the forest, and till within the last
thirty years (i.e., till 1827) a herd of Fallow-deer ranged
freely over its uncultivated space. These were preserved
by the Bishops of Winchester, who appointed keepers and
took every care to keep up the stock. There being, how-
ever, no park or enclosure, the deer strayed away into the
neighbouring lands, and were gradually killed down."
The Roe-deer, one of the most graceful and attractive of
forest animals, is in this country almost entirely confined
to Scotland. I say almost, for in a certain part of Dorset-
shire, where this species has been re-introduced, it not
only exists, but has increased and multiplied. That it was
at one time plentiful in many other parts of England there
is abundant evidence to show. I have notes of its former
existence in the counties of Northumberland, Durham,
Cumberland, Lancashire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge,
Hants, and Devon, as also in Wales, where it is said to
have existed until the time of Elizabeth. In Cumberland
it certainly survived until 1633, if no later; and in North-
umberland the last roe-deer is reported to have been killed
near Hexham, in the reign of George I. (1714—1727).
In Dorsetshire it was re-introduced in 1800 by the late
Lord Dorchester, who turned out a few pairs in his woods