fallow-deer
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On the other hand, wherever I saw animal life in abundance, as, for instance, on the lakes where scores of species and millions of individuals came together to rear their progeny; in the colonies of rodents; in the migrations of birds which took place at that time on a truly American scale along the Usuri; and especially in a migration of fallow-deer which I witnessed on the
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- A deer of the genus Dama: so called from its fallow or yellowish color spotted with white. The best-known species is the common European Cervus dama, or Dama platyceros, often kept in preserves. It is smaller than the stag or red deer; has the antlers differently formed, with more palmation at their ends; and stands about 3 feet high at the withers. There are several varieties, differing chiefly in coloration, and bucks of various ages receive different names, as fawn, pricket, sorrel, soare, etc. See cut under Dama.
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- I well remember what difficulties previous forays caused. — The Boat of a Million Years
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One fine fiimmer's morn - ing he took up his hunting-fpear in a fit of Ipleen, and fet out for the wood, in hopes of killing a fallow-deer, and pro - curing himfelf a more favoury meal.
— Popular tales of the Germans [selected from J.C.A. Musaeus] tr. [by W. Beckford]. -
On the other hand, wherever I saw animal life in abundance, as, for instance, on the lakes where scores of species and millions of individuals came together to rear their progeny; in the colonies of rodents; in the migrations of birds which took place at that time on a truly American scale along the Usuri; and especially in a migration of fallow-deer which I witnessed on the
— Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution -
It is not love, and not even sympathy (understood in its proper sense) which induces a herd of ruminants or of horses to form a ring in order to resist an attack of wolves; not love which induces wolves to form a pack for hunting; not love which induces kittens or lambs to play, or a dozen of species of young birds to spend their days together in the autumn; and it is neither love nor personal sympathy which induces many thousand fallow-deer scattered over a territory as large as France to form into a score of separate herds, all marching towards a given spot, in order to cross there a river.
— Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution -
A.a, Gavar dhan, euig luyd; A.fallow-deer; f C. Euhigluyd, A. Bi (h; Ir. Fi - adh odar-vuiye, noruadh.
— Archaeologia Britannica, giving some account additional to what has been hitherto publish'd, of the languages, histories and customs of the original inhabitants of Great Britain: : from collections and observations in travels through Wales, Cornwal, Bas-Bretagne, Ireland and Scotland.
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