Some account of English deer parks, with notes on the management of deer,книга
Аннотация: among the denizens of the forests of Gaul, but it may be doubted whether they were indigenous to our northern latitudes, and I think the following reasons, gleaned from different writers, point with tolerable certainty to an opposite conclusion.There are many varieties of the fallow-deer, but for our present purpose it will be sufficient to notice but two of them, the dark, and the spotted.The first are generally supposed to have been introduced into England by King James I. from Norway, 'where, writes Bewick in his History of Quadrupeds,!' having observed their hardiness in bearing the cold of that severe climate, he brought them into Scotland, and from thence transported them into his chases of Enfield and Epping; since that time they have multiplied exceedingly in many parts of this kingdom, which is now become famous for venison of superior fatness and flavour to that of any other country inthe world.'The spotted kind are supposed by Pennant, Bewick, and.others, whose accounts are founded on that of Buffon, to have been brought from Bengal.But the Eastern origin of this species is now generally denied ;? there appears to be no doubt that the Cervus dama or common fllswetece | is a native of Greece, and is still found there in a wild state, as well as in the forests of Italy ;3 Cuvier writes of the fallow-deer, *c'est devenue commune dans tous les pays d'Europe, mais elle parait originaire de Barberie, and in a note states, that since he penned the foregoing ' These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, the hart, 'and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, 1P.143.2 There seems good reason to believe that one species of fallow-déer was known in Syria as early as the time of Solomon.'Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, besides harts, and roebucks, and fallow deer, and fatted fowl.' -1 Kings iv.22, 23.And long before the date of Solomon, in the enumeration of what may, and what may not be eaten, we have-and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.'-D.uteronomy,xiv.4, 5.For the Dishon or pygarg, see Dr. Kitto's Cyclopedia, under Antelope, and the same authority under Ail or Ajal, for the Cervus Barbarus or Barbary Stag, in size between our red and fallow-deer.' Thompson's Natural History of Ireland, vol.vi.p. 32.
Год издания: 1867
Авторы: Evelyn Philip Shirley
Ключевые слова: Ecology and biodiversity studies
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