Glen Tanar forest heads, in the possession o f the Marquis of Huntly . . . . . . 1 2 0
Tw o views of an exceptionally fine 16-pointer now in Glenmoriston House, killed in Glenmoriston Wood sixty
years ago by Colonel J. Grant o f Moy . • - • • • • • . 1 2 1
Head o f a stag killed at Monymusk by Captain Johnstone Grant, 1795 . . . - • . 1 2 1
Stag shot at Glenfiddich by Robert Cummings forester, 24th September 1831 - • - . 1 2 4
Head o f a stag shot near Gordon Castle by Alexander, fourth Duke o f Gordon, then in his eighty-fourth
year, 5th.October 1826 . . • • • • • • • . 1 2 4
A head o f remarkable shape, beam, and length, killed by the first Lord Tweedmouth at Guisachan, Ross-shire, 9th
October 1880 . • • • • • • • • • • I2^
A head o f remarkable beam and length shot by John Stewart in Cuirn Mharneach, Glen T i lt (in the possession
o f the Duke o f Athole) . . . . . . . . . . . 127
T h e ball-room, Blair Castle . . • ■ • - • ■ • . 1 2 8
One of the passages, Blair Castle, with a large collection of stags’ heads shot by the present Duke o f Athole . 129
Head o f stag shot by Colonel Holmes in Braemore Forest, Ross-shire, 1868 (in the possession o f Sir John Fowler) 130
A head o f great beam and roughness, shot at Eskadale, 1892 . . • • • • I3I
Head of stag killed by a poacher in Glenmoriston, formerly in the collection o f Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming,
and now owned by Colonel Gordon-Cumming, Forres . . . . . . . 132
Head o f stag shot by Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming in Glen Strathfarrar . . . . . - 132
Lord Burton’s 20-pointer, shot at Glenquoich ; a head with an unusual number of points, shot 1893 . . 1.33
Remarkable stag’s head, now in the possession o f Lord Powerscourt, and formerly in the collection of the late
Hay Mackenzie at Rhidorroch, Ross-shire . . - - - • • • • 134
Head o f 13-pointer shot by Lady Breadalbane, October 1891, Black Mount, Argyle . . . . 1 3 4
Some first-class heads . . . . . . . ■ • • • • • *35
A Curiously straight head, the horns forming a complete equilateral triangle . . . . 138
Royal shot in Glen Bruar Forest by W . Ogilvie Dalgleish, Errol Park . . . 138
A Gaick Royal shot by Colonel Rhodes (in possession of John Hargreaves, Esq.) . . . • 138
Interlocked heads found together in Glenfiddich (Gordon Castle collection) . . . . . 139
Part o f skull o f a hind with a horn, killed in Glenfiddich, Gordon Castle. . . . . ' > 139
Skull of hybrid Japanese and red deer at Powerscourt, Co. Wicklow, 1894 • • • • . 1 3 9
Stag with curiously malformed face, shot by Major Claude Cane, Ardlair, Ross, 26th August 1896 . 139
Swallows’ nest and young on"stag’s horns at Warnham Court, Sussex, 1886 . - • • 140
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On the edge of old Dunkeld forest . To face page 146
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T h e herd o f white, red, and follow deer, Welbeck, 1896 . . • • • • ■ • I+2
In the sunshine . . . . . • • • • • • • • *43
Showing how follow deer bunch close together when alarmed . . - • • • *45
Does and calves . . . . . . • • • • • . . 148
T h e usual order o f the sexes when travelling . . . • - - • • • I49
Fallow deer feeding . . • • • • • • * I5°
Does playing. Early summer . . . . . • ■ • • • • I5I
Fallow deer moving away . . . - • • - • • ' • ■ I52
Bucks fighting . . . . . . • ■ ■ • • • • *53
How to carry a living follow deer . . . • • • • • • • 155
Fallow bucks . . • • • • • • • I • • ‘ f i l l
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In the flush o f the crimson morn • ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ . . To face page 160
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A typical follow buck’s head, Petworth Park, Sussex (author’s collection) . . . . . 1 6 8
IN T H E T E X T
Showing the close association o f the follow buck with certain Eastern deer . ■ 157
A head in velvet. . . . . . .
New Forest heads (wild), Queen’s House, Lyndhurst, Hants . . ■ . 159
Horns o f follow bucks ( Warnham) during the successive years . . . . j6q
Growth o f horn o f an adult follow buck, from nature (from a buck in Warnham Court) . . . 162
Fallow bucks’ heads, Welbeck, showing the light spotted, pure albino, and intermediate types . . 163
Drummond Castle heads (author’s collection) . . . . . . . . 164
A head in the armoury, Drummond Castle, o f remarkable length and span . . . . 1 6 5
Heads in the Colebrooke collection . . . . . . . 1 6 5
Cast head with double brows, Marischal College, Aberdeen ; Castle Caldwell head, Sir E. Loder’s collection ; Head
with horn excrescence over the left brow and extra point in the palm (author’s collection) ; Curious horn o f a
hevier, Dalkeith Park, N.B. . .' . . . . . 1 6 6
Fallow buck’s head with three horns (in the possession o f Sir Robert Harvey, Bart., Langley Park, Slough) . 167
T h e horn dance, a mediaeval custom still kept up at Needwood Forest, Staffordshire . . . . 1 6 9
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Ice floes on the T a y . .
F U L L P A G E
Digging out fungi . . . . . . .
T h e fairies’ ring, Cawdor . . . . . .
Roe swimming . , ; ,
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Roe horns. A good Scotch horn; a very good Scotch horn; a massive Irish horn; Pleistocene horn from
Alness, Ross-shire ; and Pleistocene horn from Perth . . . . . . .
Dunkeld woods and the valley o f the T a y (from a water-colour by William Millais). . . .
Rohallion Woods (Perthshire), the ancient hunting ground for roe o f the kings of Scotland (from a photograph
by Geoffrey Millais) . . . . . . .
Feeding on the rowan berries (from a drawing by Sidney Steel) . . . . . . .
Roe startled . . . . .
Attitudes o f a roebuck at bay . . . .
Head o f a roebuck killed whilst fighting (collection o f Colonel M ‘Inroy)
Roebucks fighting .
Attitude o f a roe defending herself (from a drawing by Sidney Steel) . . . . . .
Roe forcing her fown to lie down when she has apprehended danger . . . . . .
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