Roe- Deer 43 



Continental roes have much better heads than the Scotch. 



In judging roe-heads the principal thing looked for is length, 

 strength, and roughness of horn, and plenty of pearl at the base. 

 The points in a full-grown roe-buck head are almost invariably three 

 on each horn, there being no brow, but a point which corresponds 

 nearest to the bay-point of a stag, although slanting upwards at 

 about forty-five degrees, and a fork at the tip. 



Sometimes a roe-buck does not seem to lose his velvet, but 

 develops a thick mass of this growing over and between the horns ; 

 this is called a " perruque-head." 



A roe, like any other deer, if gelded does not renew his horns, or 

 if he has his horns at the time, they remain as they were when he 

 was gelded, either in velvet or clean. 



