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together. Whether we shall succeed in counting these animals is 

 not so very certain, end of July, 1890. The result shows we did 

 not. The high ground became obscured by haze during our 

 stag count of 1890. 



We have now about 1000 hinds (i year old and above) in the 

 Forest, 37 calves to each 100 were alive in Feb., 1890. 



If 1000 hinds, and no other deer, had existed in the Forest 13 

 years ago, and stags had been turned out every autumn and taken 

 up again, till a sufficient supply of native stags was reared, and if 

 the stock of hinds had been miraculously kept to 1000 of such as 

 exist now in age, and if the stags had been unmolested, the stock 

 of twelve-year-old stags provided for this season's shooting would 

 be TOI stags. The ground would contain 1623 stags and 1000 

 hinds. 



August, 1890 10 1 stags 12 years old. 



Also 104*13 



107*34 



110*64 



114*06 

 -117*57 



121*20 

 - 124*92 



-I28*76 



136*80 

 - 144* 



II 



10 



9 

 8 



7 

 6 



5 

 4 

 3 



2 



i year old. 



180* stag calves (more really.) 



Total 



1623 stags and stag calves, 

 hinds. 



1000 



Total stock 2623 deer on Forest. 



This would be too large a stock for the ground. 



If only 12 year old stags were selected, an average of 101 might 

 be killed every year, from 1000 hinds. I have taken 36 calves 

 (alive in Feb.) to 100 hinds for this calculation. 



Instead of 1623 stags and stag calves we appear to have had 

 about 900 of them in the Forest, Aug. 1890. 



