FALLOW DEER: MUNTJAC: SIKA DEER: ROE DEER: RED DEER. British Deer Society Publications No. 1 - 5. Set of five volumes.

1970 1st edition. 8vo stapled paperbacks (146 x 210mm). Pp22;22;30;22;22. B/w photographs, brief bibliography. Price on cover, 20 NP (4s).

This is a set of the the first five publications issued by the British Deer Society; Fallow Deer, Muntjac, Sika Deer by, respectively, Norma and Donald Chapman, Oliver Dansie, M.T. Horwood and E.H. Masters, with Roe Deer and Red Deer by series editor, Peter Delap. These are very useful, concise accounts of the biology and habits of these five species of deer. Chapters include: Distribution; Description; Photographs; Habitat and food; Activity; Communication; Droppings; The rut; Antlers; Parasites and diseases; Damage; Control and future prospects; Photographs; Close seasons and summary of the Deer Act; Aims of the British Deer Society. The first editions of these publications are now quite scarce". Wild deer of several species are now easily accessible to every British naturalist: much has been written about them in recent years from the standpoint of the forester and the stalker and we are all indebted to the researches of these pioneers. The British Deer Society has produced these booklets to encourage deer-watching by the uncommitted; each can be purchased and read separately, but the individual authors have concentrated on those aspects of deer ecology most familiar to them. We hope the set gives the general reader an overall picture of a fluid, hopeful situation wherein the enthusiastic amateur can help to elucidate the complex relationship developing between man and deer in today's countryside".