Drummond Castle, Lord A n c a s teS beautiful seat in Perthshire, is another good'
example o f park forest.
The great wood of Torlum and the neighbouring estates §jg Strowan and Glenartney
were tenanted by wild wood stags o f great size until the: year 1S32. During that year the
Drummond Castle grounds were enclosed,’ and in the great wood several of the original deer
were shut in. One splendid head hangs in the lower gallery o f the castle; that o f a beast
known as “ th J p i f s t a g , ” which was shot in the wood the following year. I give hip. ;
measurements in addition to th6s|i:;of the two other splendid heads killed by the present Earl
of Ancaster in 1893
Points. Length. Beam.
I2 | 34^ 30 6 Wjld wood stag enclosed in Torlum 1832, and shot following year.
12 1 3.4I 32 5^ Shot by Lord Ancaster in 1893. •
; ,6 3, r l Shot by Lord Ancaster in Torluin Wood 1893. Certainly the best
+ I head in Drummond Castle.
These heads ilf» #1 o f great beauty and fine quality, and ip c h resemble those l i t h e Isle;
of Arran. — ---- ■
A few years .ago I had the pleasure o f examining some remarkably fine h e ap o f this :
type (in the h a nH o f Mr. Macleay o f In v e rn e s * T h e g w ere sent in by Mr. Smith B g
Ardtornish in Mull. One can scarcely draw a hard-|§Mast line between the pnditions
under which these park-forest deer grow their heads.; and those under which .deer live in
what is called a wild state on some o f the islands off the west coast of S p llan d . In many
c a s em l i true the deer are indigenous, but in most the original breed has died out and has
been suceeed&d by modern introductions from the mainland and the south. Take, for
example, Arran, where the deer are, and have been for the past twenty years, better than in
any place on the mainland o f Scotland. It is now called a deer forest, and the deer are just
ip s difficult to kill as those in the Highlands, but as a matter vif feet they are restrained w ithin
certain limits, and the ground was not really afforested till February 1859, when Captain
Robert Sandeman took fourteen hinds and six ISpslg stags Jirom Knowsley Park, and turned
them loose near Brodick Castle. Arran heads are jl|w dlaks^Us w ild, but properly speaking
they are park-tbrest heads. I have seen many of their grand trophies in the hands of
M'Culloeh.rin Glasgow, and they are undoubtedly finer than any mainland heads.
The best Arran head that has been killed was shot by Mr. Padwick in September i 8$gj0
The stag weighed S stone f IlMclean. Length !pf horn 42 inches, and span inside 40
inches. The browsare o f extrabrimary leng'thPpjjnches. It now hangs in Brodick Castle.
4 , 5. W I L D S T A G S ’ H E A D S
JW /«R | |u d g in g by the beautiful heads that are to be seen in many old English houses,
notably in the northern counties, those deer must have been very much finer from the sixteenth
till the eighteenth centuries than they are at the present day, though o f course not approaching
the German giants o f the same period. Living, as they did, so much in great woodlands, the