1 8 THE DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



before and after the gralloch ; it was shot on 

 September 25, and weighed as he fell 18 st. 

 9} lbs., but when clean he scaled only 13 st. 8 lbs., 

 leaving 5 st. 1^- lbs. as the weight of the gralloch, 

 including heart and liver, which is somewhat under 

 the usual estimate of one-third of the gross weight. 

 Mr. Scrope, however, estimates the gralloch as 

 one-fourth the entire weight, and probably it varies 

 according to the size and condition of the animal. 

 It is somewhat remarkable that each of the seasons 

 '93 and '94 in the Black Mount should have been 

 decidedly below the average, while accounts from 

 other forests reported great numbers of heavy deer 

 to have been got, and perhaps it was late in the 

 season, and after stalking had been discontinued in 

 the Black Mount, that the numbers were obtained ; 

 for some forests depend almost entirely on the last 

 ten days of the season to make up the bag, and 

 then of course many stags which are far run are 

 bound to be killed. . In the Black Mount the 

 stalkers have the strictest orders not to stalk, stags 



