measured. The very best Scotch heads are quite as good as the best modern
German heads, but they are not so fine as those which were obtained in East
Prussia prior to the nineteenth century. A head now in the museum at Cassel
has horns of twelve and thirteen inches, and carries no fewer than sixteen good
points.
B r it ish R oe H eads.
Length Circumference
coronet
Tip to
tip Points Locality Owner
I2i 4 WBSM 6 Foulis Wester, Perth Mrs. Moncrieff.
4 — 6 Monymusk, Aberdeen Sir Arthur Grant.
1 4 vc>2l —- 6 Orton, Speyside Sir G. Macpherson Grant.
n i 1 6 6 6 Dunkeld, Perth J. G. Millais.
n — — 6 Whatcombe, Dorset J. Mansell Pleydell.
I l f 2 — — 3 Kirkcudbright Duke o f Bedford.
I I . , — 7i 6 Ross-shire H. M. Warrand.
I I 7i ■ — Sligo Sir H. Gore-Booth.
io£ 7 - 7* 6 Beaufort, Ross J. G. Millais.
M H 6 6 Ballindalloch Sir G. Macpherson Grant.
io£ 6 1 6 Inverness Sir G. Macpherson Grant.
IO f 4 6 New Mill, Perth J. G. Millais.
io i 5i 6 6 Cawdor, Nairn J. G. Millais.
9| S ■ - 12 Lissadell, Sligo Sir H. Gore-Booth.
— 12 Ardross, Ross C. W. Dyson Perrins
9| 5 5 6 Dorset J. E. Harting.
9$ — 7 } 6 New Forest Hon. G. Lascelles.
9i 4 4 6 Beaufort, Ross J. G. Millais.
The heaviest horns are usually from 9 to 9I inches. The average weight of
the skull and horns without the lower jaw is eleven ounces, but one exceptionally
massive head shot by my father at Trinity Gask near Perth weighs twenty-one
ounces, while the Lissadell twelve-pointer must be several ounces more, and is
undoubtedly the heaviest British Roe head in existence. Roe horns from the
densely afforested areas are generally set very closely together, while those carried
by bucks living in a country like Ross-shire, where they have constant access
to the open hillsides, are usually of good spread. The two horns are also very
1 I think that this is the best British Roe head of the normal type I have seen. 4 A single hom.
3 The coronet of another single hom from Lissadell measures no less than 9^ inches in circumference.