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A Highlaad black-headed gullery Frontispiece
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F U L L P A G E
Megaceros head at Leonardslee, with table for comparison o f Megaceros heads . . - • - 9
Great head of gigantic Irish deer found near Tullamore, Ireland (front view) . . . • r4
Great head o f gigantic Irish deer found near Tullamore, Ireland (side view) . . ■ • • 15
Some types o f heads o f the gigantic Irish deer- . • • • ■ • • • !9
IN T H E T E X T
Fossil remains o f extinct British deer . - ■ • • • ■’ • ■ 2
Complete skeleton o f the gigantic Irish deer ■ 4
Ancient Britons hunting the Megaceros (from a drawing by Sidney Steel) • • • 5
Showing mode o f finding the heads, their position, and the strata in which they are generally embedded . • 7
British reindeer, Norfolk . • • ■ • - • • • • *7
Horn o f British reindeer found at Twickenham, 1894 . • - ■ • • • . 2 1
R E D D E E R
E L E C T R O - E T CH IN G S
Hind-stalking £oface page 22
Th e y kill us for their sport . . . . • • • > • T .* — 4°
T h e series o f drawings that graced the walls o f Ardverikie Lodge previous to its destruction by fire in 1871 „ 46
IN T H E T E X T
Wash and brush-up, no charge . •
Park stags o f the Stoke herd, 1872 . . . .
T h e two great stags o f Warnham Court. . . .
Stags passing under trees when their horns are in velvet .
Jackdaws stealing stags’ hair for their nests
Dozing . . ■ ■ • • • •
Sketches o f stags sparring and fighting . . . .
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