Plate III. A young male fallow deer which lost his left hind leg in an accident
and had a ring stuck on his right hind foot before being killed in a road ac-
cident. Waltham Holy Cross, April 1970.
D. I. Chapman.
taken to imply that either a herd or a particular deer necessarily moves over the
entire area: they may do so but this has not been proven. Fallow deer certainly
move about (see Chapman & Chapman, 1975) but the greatest distance that a
marked deer has been known to travel in Essex is 5 km. The term 'range' is used
to describe the fact that deer may be found in most parts of the area under
discussion.
Fallow deer were recorded from the main part of Epping Forest to the
north of Buckhurst Hill, and over much of the area between Waltham Abbey
and Harlow although they were not found in the extreme north-west, the
Nazeing-Roydon-Parndon area. At least 31 fallow were killed in road accidents
(Plate III) in the area during 1965-1966 and details of these animals have been
published (Chapman, 1969; Chapman & Chapman, 1969).
On 4 January 1966, an attempt was made to obtain some idea of the
distribution and number of fallow deer to the north-west of Epping Forest. The
area, some 1620 hectares, was the Woodredon and Copped Hall estates together
with the land between them. Insufficient people were available to cover the
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