Midrash for Chullin 126:16
למה נשנו
[of R'Hisda] differs from that of R'Abbahu,<a rel="footnote" href="#7"><sup>7</sup></a>
Sifrei Devarim
And we are taught that the unclean beasts (and animals) are more numerous than the clean ones; for in all places Scripture specifies the lesser, viz. (Devarim, Ibid.) "This is the beast that you may eat … (5) the hart, the gazelle, and the fallow deer."
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