Citations:menel

English citations of menel

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• 1800, James Anderson, Recreations in Agriculture, Natural-history, Arts, and Miscellaneous Literature, page 370:

  […] fallow universally, yet their colours are various, as light brown, dark brown, white, black, and some with white faces; and about seventy years ago another variety, called Menel, was brought into this kingdom from Bengal; […] Menel deer are of a reddish brown, spotted with a clear white, and when arrived to full age, with a large […]

• 1892, Royal Agricultural Society of England, Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, page 45:

  […] keep their peculiar character and colour, the latter menel, in a marked degree.

• 1908, William Page (editor), The Victoria History of the County of Warwick: Warwickshire, page 293

  […] is stocked with about 80 head of menil fallow deer. […] With regard to the term ‘menel’ or 'menil-coloured' as applied to fallow deer, and the celebrated herd at Shuckburgh, Mr. Gerald F. S. Shuckburgh writes:- 'The herd is kept to about 80 head; they are menel fallow, very pure, in fact the purest herd of its kind in the country, there being only two more such herds in existence . . . A note, written about 1830, of my grandfather's (the eighth baronet) describes the herd as the menel or menil spotted deer, […] dappled with very distinct markings.