so THE RED DEER OF EXMOOR. 



riall, surriall ; and when you may know him by the 

 toppe, you shall call him forked a hart of tenne. 

 and when he beareth three on the top you shall call 

 him a harte of twelve : and when he beareth fourre 

 you shall call him summed a hart of sixteen, and from 

 fourre forward you shall call him summed of so many 

 as he carrieth how many soever they be." 



Manwood calls the lowest point the brow antler, 

 just as we do now, and the others royal and surroyal. 

 From this it would appear that the term antler should 

 in strictness apply only to the brow, and in practice 

 the West Country-man, though he has no book learn- 

 ing on the subject, rarely if ever speaks of the bay 

 antler or the tray antler, but of the bay and tray 

 " points." 



It is curious that among all the voluminous 

 treatises ancient and modern it is impossible to find 

 a correct technical term for the whole of the growth 

 on one side. The term in most common use is 

 antler, distinguished as " near" or " off." 



In Scotland the sportsman follows closely after 

 the rule of the Boke of St. Albans, and calls his 

 stag a stag of ten or twelve as the case may be ; 

 this usage has never prevailed in the West, and we 

 say a stag has " brow, bay, tray, and three," or 

 "two," as the case may be "on top." If a stag 

 has brow, bay, and tray, he is said to have all his 

 "rights," and would then be described as having 

 " all his rights and three," or whatever the number 

 might be, on top. 



