ITS ANIMALS. 69
it is fitting that we should pay them every atten-
tion. The greatest care is therefore taken to
guard them from molestation. Guns are not
allowed to be used. The result is seen in unusual
fearlessness, especially of many of the birds, such
as wild ducks. In the following memoranda on
the animals and birds I have limited my observa-
tions to those characteristics which may be noted
ROE-DEER. RED-DEER. FALLOW-DEER.
by any observant eye. I have not included in the
list the prairie wolf, of which there is a specimen
at the Zoological, which was alleged to have been
caught in Epping Forest. According to the story
which appeared in Land and Water in the summer
of 1884, this animal was purchased as a cub by a
gentleman living at Leytonstone, from a hay carter,
who said that he had caught it with two others in
the Forest, and described them as fox cubs. When