A BERDEENSHIRE. 



October there is a deer drive. The head forester's 

 name is Donald Stewart, and the usual kill of stags 

 is a little over ioo, which show an average of 

 15 stone without heart or liver. 



This being the first time that the weight of deer 

 is mentioned in these pages, I will ask my readers 

 to understand that in all subsequent allusions to 

 this matter " quite clean or clean " will refer only 

 to beasts weighed without heart or liver, and in 

 the remainder of these pages wherever the weights 

 of deer are mentioned and not stated to be " clean," 

 the different methods of taking the weight will be 

 duly stated, and, moreover, my readers will find 

 this subject of the various modes of weighing more 

 fully discussed in the chapter on the Forest of 

 Achnacarry. 



The widest head killed in Her Majesty's forests 

 has measured 35^- inches across, and the thickest 

 horn 63- inches in circumference immediately above 

 the coronet, which, though a good stout horn, is not 

 anything extraordinary. Golden eagles frequent the 



