Th e herd o f white red deer, Welbeck, 1896 . • • • . . .
T h e herd of white red deer, Welbeck, 1896 . . . . • •
Head of an albino stag, Welbeck . - •
A bit o f action . . . • • • • • • •
Yearling hinds, Ardverikie . . . . • • • •
Hinds (from a photograph by Geoffrey Millais)
Deer swimming a loch, showing the manner the heads are raised when approaching shallows
“ T o pass elsewhere” (from a drawing by Sidney Steel) • • _
Various British animals swimming, and their positions in the water
Getting the wind . • • ■ • • •
“ Yon auld deil 0’ a hind ” . • • •
T h e best in the forest with his fag on the watch . . •
“ Just for this week I can bully you ” .
Stags fighting . . • • • ' • • • •
Roused . . .
A soiling pool . . . • •
Hinds coming into shelter before a storm (from a drawing by Sidney Steel)
T h e drinking pool, Inverewe, Ross, N .B .
How the golden eagle sometimes gets a dinner .
A drive (from a drawing by Sidney Steel)
A stag shot through the lungs . •
T h e big stag o f G len Ettive (photograph o f wild deer taken from nature in the Black Mount)
A stag shot through the heart . . • • • • •
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T h e Sanctuary, Ardverikie . . . . . • • - • ■ To face page 62
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T h e first breath of winter . . - • . . .
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A hind charging at an eagle that has alighted near her calf
Stags feeding as they move . . . . . • •
That confounded grouse . . . - • ~
“ Speaks, and, in accents disconsolate, answers the wail o f the forest ”
In rags and tatters : wild stags, August . . .
T h e head stalker, Black Mount, with pony and stag . .
T h e stalkers, Black Mount .
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Corrie Hourich, Black Mount . . • - . ■ • - To face page 78
IN T H E T E X T
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“ Some grouse and blackgame came over, and all their heads went up at once” (photograph of wild deer from
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“ As a feather is wafted downward from an eagle in her flight ” .
What we arej|Iil looking for . . . . . . . . . . .
Hidden away behind some peat hag, he passes most o f the day . . . . . . .
Feeding nervously after being moved (from a drawing by E. Roe) . . . . • .
“ H e’s a’ richt ” .
Th e last chance before night (from a drawing by E. Roe) . . . . . . .
Waiting; for Donald . . . • . • • • • . ..
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Sunshine on Ben Alder . . . • . . • • • • . T o face page
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Growth o f a stag’s horns in one season (park), (drawn from nature in Warnham Court Park, Sussex, as the development
took place) . . . .
T h e three best years o f the great Warnham head, from three points o f view . . . . .
IN T H E T E X T
T h e largest stag’s head in the world . . . . . . . . . .
Normal horn-casting o f a park stag . . . . .
Series o f horns grown by a stag under semi-feral conditions, Blair Castle, Perthshire . . . .
Antler o f the third year with what appears to be the second-year horn still attached . . . .
T w o large fossil heads in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington . . . . .
Head o f a stag taken from the peat moss at Combermere, Cheshire, in the possession o f the Duke of Westminster
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Sir Douglas Brooke’s Irish red deer head (prehistoric) . . . . . . . .
Lord Powerscourt’s Irish red deer head (prehistoric) . . . . . . . .
Ashton Park head (owner Sir Greville Smythe) . . . . . . . . .
Melbliry Park head . . . . . . . . . . . .
A Welbeck stag’s head (park). . . . . . . . . . . .
Head of a big Stoke stag, 1872 (park) . . . . .
Palmated and ordinary types, Warnham Court, 1895 (park) . . . . . . .
A good example o f palmation (park) . . .
T h e great Warnham head, 1894 (park) . . .
T h e big Warnham head (top view), 1894 . . . . . . . . .
Head o f the great Warnham stag, born 1880, shot 1894, showing series o f dropped antlers
Malformed growth o f stag’s head (German) . . . .
Head o f a park stag with abnormal growth, Colebrooke . . . . . .
Malformed park stags’ heads, Welbeck . . . . . . . . . .
Head of a big Warnham stag . . . . . . . . . . .
Stags’ heads grown under semi-feral conditioriSj Colebrooke, Ireland . . . . . .
Wild English stags’ heads (after Collyns) . . . . ., . .
A typical Irish head (wild), shot by Lord Castlerosse at Killarney, Co. Kerry, 1894 . . . .
14-pointer shot at Muckross, Kerry, by Mr. Ralph Sneyd, 1894 . . . . . . .
Scotch stags’ heads o f to-day . . . . . . . . . . .
A typical wild Scotch head o f forty years ago, shot at Erchless, Ross-shire .
Stags’ heads shot by the late Sir J. E. Millais at Kinloch-Luichart, 1867, and sketched by him at the time
Deterioration due to isolation . . .
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