Proportion of 

 sexes here 

 and in Ross, 

 etc. 



List of Forest 

 Stags, Hinds, 

 and Calves. 

 Knobbers. 

 Deaths of all 

 these. 



Method of 

 estimating. 



Results 

 compared 

 with counts. 



Stags deaths. 

 Hinds deaths. 

 Calves deaths. 



It appears that in Jura the proportion of hinds to stags is less 

 than 2 hinds to i stag hinds i .year old and upwards, stags 2 years 

 old and upwards. On the mainland forests I think it is usually 

 more. I should be inclined to say 3 hinds to i stag, or possibly 4, 

 but it is a point not very easy to determine. The best stags fight 

 terribly ; we lose from one to three yearly in fights. 



Below is an estimate of stags in Forest two years old and up- 

 wards ; also of hinds in Forest one year old and upwards ; and of 

 calves in Forest. The yearling stags may be estimated by dividing 

 calves by three. The death list of stags, hinds, and calves is here 

 also. For the estimates of stags we take 525 in 1878 ; 490 in 1879 

 (see page 31) ; and afterwards we bring in the fresh two-year-old 

 stags each year working by our birth and death tables and take 

 off the yearly destruction of grown stags by death and shooting. 



We base the stock of hinds for 1878 upon our count, taken 

 very early in year 1879. Afterwards we bring in the fresh year- 

 old hinds each year working by our birth and death tables and 

 take off the yearly loss of grown-up hinds by death and shooting. 

 Hind stock of 1889 comes out 1,008 by this calculation and 955 

 by count; stag stock of 1889, 581 by this calculation, 534 by 

 count. Calves seem to come out about equal to count of 1889. 



Inner took a more leading part in the breeding in earlier 

 years, and, as it is an infertile place, we have in consequence 

 estimated in our table that 100 hinds, one year old and upwards 

 have produced 35 calves alive in February. 



During our first recorded 5 years, death of stags (Forest) averaged 6 per cenj:. 

 6 years, ,, stags ,, ,, 2\ ,, 



5 years, ,, hinds ,, ,,, 8 ,, 



6 years, ,, hinds ,, ,, 3 



5 years, we found calves dead bodies, 25 /o (Forest). 



6 years, ,, ,, ,, ii| ,, 



In stags we have added 'none to the discovered deaths, we find 

 very nearly all stags. For hinds we add one more death to every 

 10 discovered. For calves we shall make a very heavy addition, 

 as shewn by table for Forest (see page 31). 



In considering what proportion of stags may properly be shot, 

 one must first ascertain whether the stock of stags is increasing, 

 stationary, or decreasing, and this we have seen depends upon 

 the hinds, not upon the heather. If stags are decreasing, of 

 course one should be content to shoot a reduced number. 



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