are in the same collection and in that formed by the late Viscount Powerscourt.
Another very fine Irish head is in the possession of Mr. Ormsby Lauder. It was
discovered in Co. Leitrim, and has a span of 39* inches with twenty-one points,
A ncient British Red Deer
on outside
f Cireum- Widest
inside Spread Points Where found 0™
48 6$ _ 45 7+7 Alport, Derby British Museum.
47$ 8 ' — 5+8 Manchester Ship Sir R. M. Brooke, Bart.
32 46 21
Canal excavations
Cresswell Bog, G. P. Hughes.
7$ 28* 43$ 9+ 12
N orthumberland
Combermere, Duke o f Westminster.
40
38$
7
5 30 3 9 $ 8 + 6
Cheshire
Elgin, N.B.
Ireland
Duke o f Westminster.
Viscount Powerscourt
5
5$
8 + 8 Ireland Viscount Powerscourt.
10+13 Ireland Sir Douglas Brooke,
6 } 37i 19 Kerry, Ireland
Bart.
Viscount Powerscourt.
■ n 1 47 — Kinloch Moidart —
_ 40 26 R. Halladale, Duke o f Sutherland.
34 5$ - 39i 8+13
Sutherland
Co. Leitrim, Ireland J. Ormsby Lauder.
Park Stags’ Heads
Owing to the attention which has been paid of late years to Deer kept in
English parks, we find that the best examples, such as are found in the enclosures
of Stoke, Langley, Melbury, Vaynol, Woburn, Welbeck, and Warnham, reach a
high degree of excellence, and in a few cases are but little inferior in antlers to
the giants of the Pleistocence Age. They are, however, seldom so thick or so long
in the horn. The span of the best is from 30 to 40 inches, the length from 33
to 42$ inches, and the beam from 5 to 7 inches in circumference; points from
12 to 30— only rarely exceeding the latter. A remarkable Deer killed at Warnham
in 1894, and born in 1880, grew the following series of horns; first year s antlers
not kept; 1888, 29 points; 1889, 34 points ; 1890, 34 points; 1891, 37 points; 1892,
47 points; 1893, 45 points (19 inches across the cup); 1894, 45 points.