THE STAG OF THE ALPS 



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cracy, which afford sport such as is probably to be found no- 

 where else in the civilised world. 



Confining himself to the bags of the last ten years or so, 

 the writer can give the following details. The heaviest stags of 

 all are shot at the famous ^lunkacs estate of Count Schoen- 

 born, in the Carpathian Alps, where stags with a clean weight of 

 40 stone 8 lbs. have been killed in the last decade. Their heads 

 are, however, so it is generally averred, not better than those 

 of stags in the adjacent Pilis Mountains and other regions 

 in the Carpathians. The accompanying sketch (No. i) is an 

 accurate representation of the upper part of a pair of antlers 



No. 1 



of a stag killed at Radauc in 1882 by Prince Rohan ; they 

 are of the following very remarkable dimensions : length of 

 right antler 49/,^ ins., of left antler 48^% ins. No. 2 sketch 

 represents antlers of a stag shot in the Pilis Mountains in 1884 

 by the present Duke of Ratibor, the right antler measuring 

 49 ins., the left 50 j\ ins., while the spread from tip to tip at 

 widest point is 55-1% ins. This is enormous. The remark- 

 able expanse of the crown of a stag shot on the Jolsva estates 

 (Hungary) in 1884 by Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg Gotha is 

 shown in sketch No. 3, where the extreme distance between 



e two most prominent tines forming the crown a to b tapes 



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