DEER BREEDING 



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various modifications of the red deer differ chiefly 

 in their horns. There is indeed a white breed or variety 

 found in some parks, but this differs only in colour from 

 ordinary park red deer. 



There has been a good deal of talk about the deterioration of the 

 Highland red deer " heads " (" head " being the technical stalking term 

 for the pair of horns) by the introduction of park and German stags 

 into the Scotch deer-forests for the purpose of improving the " heads." 

 But I am personally of opinion that the old "Highland head" died 

 out long ago before I began stalking in 1870. 



\Yhat I regard as the true " Highland head " is the type seen in the 

 illustrations to Scrope's Days of Deer-Stalking and in some of 

 Landseer's pictures ; the main characteristic being the great amount 

 of curl in the points of the horns, like the flourishes old masters of 

 penmanship used to make in writing. 



I have never seen a living stag with such horns, but specimens of 

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