CLASS MAMMALIA.
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acres of ornamental water and a brook intersect the park,
forming the boundary between Greenstead and Wyvenhoe
parishes.
LANGLEY'S PARK.—100 acres, 88 Fallow Deer.
Quendon Park.—80 or 90 acres, about 100 Fallow
Deer. Some very fine oaks. Has been a deer park for
about two hundred years.
Mr. Evelyn P. Shirley, in his English Deer Parks (London,
1867), described three more parks—Audley End, Short Grove,
and Braxted—which now no longer contain Deer.
Genus Capreolus, H. Smith.
Capreolus caprea, Gray. Roe Deer.
Again I must quote Mr. J. E. Harting's valuable paper on
" The Deer of Epping Forest" (Essex Nat., vol. i., p. 58) for
an account of the Roe as an Essex animal. In it, he shows
conclusively from charters, court rolls, and other satisfactory
proofs, some of them geological, that the Roe was formerly
an inhabitant of the county. It disappeared from the Forest
of Essex, apparently before Norden wrote his Description of
Essex in 1594. Mr. Harting also details the active part he
took, in company with Mr. E. N. Buxton, one of the verderers
of Epping Forest, in successfully reintroducing to the Forest,
in 1884, this interesting and beautiful creature (see also
Field, April 5th, 1884, pp. 487-8}. By this most enter-
prising restoration, we are enabled to add another species to
our Fauna. The Roes are now (1897) doing well, and are
supposed to number over twenty.
In excavating the remains of a Roman building at West
Mersea in the spring of 1897, bones and antlers of the Roe
Deer were found, with those of the Sheep and the small
Celtic Ox.