Female birds also occasionally, assume the male plumage and lay eggs that are perfectly
fertile. , c
And now perhaps, gentle reader, you will think that I have “ bucked enough for one
day, for the comprehensive naturalist must look upon our deer and their horns as but
poor things ; but then, after all, they are our own ! And he is a feeble patriot indeed
who does not think his own creatures' and forms o f the chase the best. A t any rate, the
annual “ trek ” to the North is a proof o f the popularity of deer-stalking ; and as for the study
of heads, well, I have only striven to impart some o f the love o f beautiful thmgs which I
feel myself for the glories o f nature. To all true sportsmen that expenditure o f “ gas ” about
SOME REMARKABLE HJBB ABNORMAL GERMAN IBBBniHBM HEADS
England.ts. s-The s »coalesced u„ ™ head .on n»the .»r. ght a .s .m the Munich Museum » - The c0“ Ple‘^ “ | § It was a,fve whcn sccurc(, By « H.R.n " has exuded over the top of the head and covered the face like a mask, though the animal coul > H. Prince
Fr»,ierirlr Charles of Prussia at Potsdam in December 1872 (from Fursi Zwlogte, p. 365). .
“ records,” unaccompanied by true appreciation o f beauty, is both hateful and vulgar, and I
should be more than sorry i f anything in this work should arouse any possible contention.-
There is an old Gaelic toast given in Highland regiments which seems to me a fitting-
conclusion. It is as follows
Here’s a health to our Queen (God bless her!) and the lads wi’ the kilt, and a health to the land o’
the hills and the heather, where the hungry are fed and the wild deer find shelter.
THE END
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