on the plains of Sindia.[1] At that time no fewer than 3000 head were annually killed in Sardinia. It is remarkable that the inhabitants call it "Crabolu," a corruption of Capriolo (the Roebuck), which does not exist on the island, while the Red Deer is occasionally met with, more particularly in the east, although it does not attain so large a size here as on the Continent.[2] According to Bonaparte and Cornalia,[3] this species of deer is still tolerably common on this island. In Spain it appears there are very few wild deer now-a-days: at all events, A.E. Brehm, in his 'Beitrag zur Zoologischen Geographie Spaniens,' could only recollect having seen them in parks.[4] On the other hand, Graëlls refers to Cervus dama as an inhabitant of the Sierra Guadarrama.[5] The modern Spaniards call this animal "Gamo" or "Paleto." Buffon[6] says that in his time the Fallow Deer of Spain had longer tails than elsewhere, and were nearly as large as the Red Deer. Gérard, in his 'Faune Historique de l'Alsace,' already quoted (p. 327), informs us that this species of deer still occurs in a wild state in France,—for instance, in Nivernais, in the Cevennes, and in the Alps of Dauphiné,—but does not say on what authority he makes this statement, and Gervais, in his 'Zoologie et Paléontologie,' does not mention it. As regards Greece, Blasius, in his 'Mammalia of Germany' (Brunswick, 1857, p. 455), says, "Belon found the Fallow Deer on the islands of the Grecian Archipelago"; but Erhard does not mention it in his 'Fauna der Cycladen' (Leipzig, 1858). V.d. Mühle, however, refers to it in his 'Beiträgen zur Ornithologie Griechenlands' (1844, p. 1).[7]
From the foregoing data the following conclusions may be drawn:—
1. In prehistoric times the Fallow Deer, with other extinct Mammalia, inhabited Lebanon, South Russia, Italy, France, Upper Austria, Wurtemburg, Baden, Saxony, Hamburg, and Denmark.
- ↑ 'I Quadrupedi di Sardegna,' Sassari, 1774, pp. 104, 105.
- ↑ [Both Lord Lilford and Mr. Basil Brooke have observed the Fallow Deer wild in many parts of Sardinia.]
- ↑ 'Fauna d'ltalia,' parte prima (Milano).
- ↑ 'Berliner Zeitschrift für Erdkunde,' 1858, p. 101.
- ↑ [Lord Lilford has seen it wild in Central Spain, near Aranjuez.]
- ↑ 'Histoire Naturelle,' tome vi., Paris, 1756, p. 170.
- ↑ [Lord Lilford has observed wild Fallow Deer in the province of Acarnani, in Greece; and in December, 1864, as we are informed by Mr. Sclater, the Zoological Society received a small dark-coloured Fallow Deer from the island of Rhodes.]
