36 THE DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND 



sound but too well-known to deerstalkers, but Mr. 

 Evans relates that on four different occasions he has 

 heard a stag bark as loudly and as often as a hind, 

 and of this I have never before heard, and I imagine 

 it will be news to many. 



There was at one time rather a heavy death-rate 

 amongst the deer of Jura, where there is an average 

 rainfall of 65 inches per annum, but such mortality 

 could not be attributed to wet weather only, for there 

 are other forests in the north where the downpour is 

 much heavier ; therefore Mr. Evans has come to the 

 conclusion that many deer die of the hair-like lung- 

 worm causing the disease called "husk," and in 1890 

 two freshly dead stags were found with their lungs 

 full of these parasites, which makes it a matter for 

 regret that dead deer are seldom found fresh enough 

 to permit of any prolonged and close examination. 

 Recently Mr. Percy H. Grimshaw, when pursuing 

 his investigations on this parasite in Ross-shire, 

 has established the fact that this worm is the child 

 of the bot-fly. Deer also suffer from warbles pro- 



