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 A HISTORY OF STAFFORDSHIRE and one or two stray an finals appear from time to time in the woods and plantations at Swilcar Lawn and elsewhere on Needwood Forest. 36. Roe Deer. Capreolus capreolus. Linn. Bell Capreolus cafrea. Sir Oswald Mosley (Natural History of Tutbury y p. 1 7) says: 'Several horns of the roe- buck have been found on Needwood Forest,' and then goes on to describe the fallow deer found there before the enclosure ; with this exception I can find no recent reference to the occurrence of this little deer in Staffordshire, and it seems certain that for the last hundred years at least the roe deer has been extinct in the county. NOTE. I cannot conclude this paper without expressing my indebtedness to the pages of the Reports and Transactions of the North Staffordshire Field Club (especially the Reports of the section on Zoology compiled by the chairman, John R. B. Masefield, Esq., M.A.) and to the works of Plot, Dickenson (in Shaw's Staffordshire), Garner, Sir Oswald Mosley and Edwin Brown. My thanks are also due for much interesting information to James Yates, Esq., M.R.C.S. ; to J. E. Nowers, Esq. ; and for particulars as to the cattle and deer of Chartley Park to Earl Ferrers' head keeper, Mr. W. Goring. 168