Citations:menil

English citations of menil

also spelled Citations:menel (3+), Citations:mennal (2), Citations:menald (1)

• 2007 February 26, Elizabeth Cary Mungall, Exotic Animal Field Guide: Nonnative Hoofed Mammals in the United States, Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN, page 96:

  […] fallow deer, immature. Tan coat of fallow that turns white as adult. Photo by Elizabeth Cary Mungall, courtesy of the Global Wildlife Center, Louisiana. European fallow deer males. The "menil" coat looks like a dilute form of "common." Photo by Elizabeth Cary Mungall, courtesy of the Global Wildlife Center, Louisiana. European fallow deer female. A "white" doe with a group of "menil" and "black" fallow.

• 2014, Lewis Potter, Deer Stalking and Management:

  […] Menil fallow buck in summer coat, regarded by many people as the most handsome of deer. Note lateral line below white spots, long tail and, being a menil animal, brown stripe down tail and around caudal patch, rather than the black […]

• 2021, Carolyn King, David Forsyth, The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals, page 494:

  […] menil phase (or 'English Park') fallow deer have no black hair, so they […]

• [2012, George A. Feldhamer, William J. McShea, Deer: The Animal Answer Guide, page 42:

  […] "fallow” probably came from the Old English word fealou, meaning “brownish” or “reddish yellow.” A paler variation of the typical brown coloration of this species is called menil. Fallow deer can also have a white pelage.]

• 2021 April 26, Larry Fowles, The Complete Deer Stalker: From Field to Larder, The Crowood Press, →ISBN:

  White fallow buck in velvet; note the eye colour, so. A common and two menil young fallow bucks. The antlers are in velvet, and spots are emerging on the common fallow for the coming summer. Mature common buck chasing a sore (buck in its 4th.

• 1990 July 27, H. Hemmer, Domestication: The Decline of Environmental Appreciation, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 173:

  ... menil , allele of the black locus . Given these various coat colourings , the third principle of domestication Fig . 12.11 . In the so - called menil colouring of the fallow deer ( left ) the basic colour is light rust set off from the […]