294 THE DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



Kinlochewe, the rest of the boundaries being sheep 

 ground. 



Mr. Laycock's best day in the forest since he first 

 took it, in 1889, has been seven stags, and the heaviest 

 stag in that time was killed by Mr. Perkins on 

 the Maighdean, a ten-pointer of 20 stone 2lb. On 

 Christmas Eve, 1890, Mr. Laycock shot a very old, 

 perfectly milk-white hind that had been on the ground 

 long before he came. She was only shot from a 

 conviction that she would not last through the winter, 

 for she had been barren for the three previous seasons, 

 although in the years in which she had calves they 

 were always of the ordinary colour. This remarkable 

 beast has been set up whole by Rowland Ward. 

 Mr. Laycock also got a light-coloured royal stag, 

 which was incorrectly spoken of as " the white stag." 

 This beast he had previously missed, and altogether 

 he had been shot at nine times ere he received the 

 fatal bullet. On the very steep slope of the 

 Maighdean Mrs. Mitchell Innes, the lessee's sister, 

 made a remarkable bit of good shooting as she was 



