W ild S co tch H ead s k il l e d s in c e 1850
outside
Circum-
of beam
Width
inside
Extreme Points Wright Locality Owner
40 6 30 _ 5 + 5 4 st. 7 lb. Glentilt Duke o f Atholl.
401 6i — 40 6+6 — Aberfeldy —
7i 34 39* 6+6 21 st. 9 lb. Guisachan Lord Tweedmouth.
36 6 + 6 19 st. Strathvaick John Williams.
26^ _ 7 + 7 _ Sir H. de Trafford.
37f 2 5l 2ó| — 6 + 7 — — H .R .H . the Duke o f Saxe-
Coburg and Gotha.
37i 2 5 *4i — 6 + 5 — - H .R .H . the Duke o f Saxe-
Coburg and Gotha.
37 2 H 3° i 6+ 7 — Affaric Forest,
1900
Shot by Captain
Sandemann.
3<* - 35 — 6 + 6 — Glenmoriston Colonel W . Gordon
Cumming.
34 41 5 + 6 — Glenstrathfarrer Viscount Powerscourt.
36 5* 28 36 7 + 7 Berriedale Duke o f Portland.
36 4. 27 6+6 ; 1 S M Caenlochan Mrs. Henry Tate.
36 s 5* 3° * ■ — 6 + 7 . — Glenquoich Lord Burton.
35f 4Î 34 36f 4 + 3 — Caenlochan Mrs. Henry Tate.
35i 40 6+5 Glenstrathfarrer Viscount Powerscourt.
35 6£ 36 5 + 5 Kintail Forest J. Young.
35 5* 25 29 6+ 6 19 st. Auchnashalloch T he late Lord
Alexander Paget.
35 5* 32 34 7 + 7 15 st. 9 lb. Knoydart A . Bowlby.
35 _ — 34 6+6 North Morar Captain Gill.
5Î 33i 37i 6 + 6 — Guisachan Lord Tweedmouth.
35 4} 27* 4+4 . “ Gaick John Hargreaves.
34i 5i 37b 6+6 n V Braemore Lady Fowler.
33i 5 33i ,39 9 j j g j l i l l Invermark Lord Hindlip.
1 The most perfect Scotch head that I have seen of recent years, and for all-round qualities perhaps the best recently
killed example in existence.
* Records o f B ig Game, p. 16.
* In the above list I have not included the 20-pointer shot by Lord Burton at Glenquoich, because I do not
believe it to have been a Highland Stag. I examined the head in the flesh and found it to be an old worn beast suffering
from decline. The horns weighed only a pound or two, and were not such as would be carried by a Highland Stag in its
prime. Lord Burton has affirmed that this was a genuine ‘ Highlander,’ and as such I included it in my B ritish Deer and
1. Shot by A. S. Bowlby, October 4, 1898, in Corrie Beithe, Knoydart.
3. Royal, killed at Eskadale, August 1892. A head of heavy beam and
roughness.
5. Shot by the first Lord Tweedmouth at Guisechan, October 9,1880.
A head of perfect shape.
2. Shot by J. E. Baillie at Glenquoich, October 15, 1902. Length, 36 in-
The brow and bay points are of great beauty.
4. Royal, shot by J. C. Williams at. Strathvaick in 1898. Length, 39 in.
Extreme span, 39;iri.
6. Shot by Colonel Holmes at Braemore in 1868.