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with the skull of a calf firmly fixed in his mouth, and 

 several times others have been picked up dead, choked 

 by bones, and nearly always these have been stags, so 

 that it is an error to suppose, as is sometimes thought, 

 that only hinds eat bones and horns. 



Mr. Evans is a great advocate of heather burning in 

 a forest, and having pursued this plan for the last six 

 years, he has found a considerable lessening of mor- 

 tality ; therefore, with this knowledge to guide them, 

 other forest owners might well give heather burning 

 a trial. In addition to the husk parasite Mr. Evans 

 has observed five other varieties in the island. Neither 

 fluke nor sturdy are rare in deer of all sorts, while 

 stags especially are liable to be infested by a very 

 large worm adhering to the throat and lower part 

 of the tongue. This worm, usually found in the 

 spring, is nearly as thick and as long as the little 

 finger, with a most repulsive, leech-like appearance, 

 and for a long time nothing quite certain was known 

 of how it came to be in the stags' throat. 



The so-called "bark" of a suspicious hind is a 



