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clean. Average length of horns 8 in., maximum length 12I in., which 

 was that of the above-mentioned buck. 



Stalking is generally clone in the early morning or before nightfall, 

 when the deer are feeding on grass land or low-growing crops. In 

 high corn they are safe of course, and take advantage of it accord- 

 ingly. In the rut. in the last days of July and beginning of August, 

 the buck can be called by imitating the chirping love-note of the 

 enamoured doe. If he is in hearing, and the sound is imitated well, 

 the buck will come at a quick pace without making the usual circuit 

 to take the scent, as stags often do. 



In large shoots, or where they are much harassed, it is often 

 of advantage to use a cart or low stalking carriage, and jump down 

 when at a walking pace under cover of the vehicle, or a tree or 

 bush. 



Winter feeding, with hay, turnips, oats, chestnuts, is resorted 

 to in all good shoots. Close time for the buck March and April ; 

 for the doe the ten months from December to September. 



The chamois and its chase will have been treated by an abler pen 



in the Austrian chapter of this volume, for Austria is its 



Chamois. 

 real home. Suffice it here to say that it is also fairly 



common in the Alpine parts of Bavaria. 



All along the Tyrolese frontier, from Reichenhall to the lake of 



Constance, and in contrast to Tyrol, where the game is constantly 



shot and harassed by the owners of peasant shooting, the north 



slope of the Alpine range is a series of well-kept and carefully guarded 



preserves, the principal inhabitants of which are chamois and red 



deer. The Bavarian Prince Regent, an inveterate sportsman, the 



