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what different aspect ; it had upturned brow points like a 

 red deer, and a thin grey neck utterly unlike that of any 

 young stag. 



" That's a doe," I said to Saunders, handing him the 

 glass to take a look. 



"Yes," replied my companion, "an' with the biggest 

 horns I ever see in my life." 



The two deer had now separated, the unhorned doe 

 coming straight on and landing within a few yards of us 

 before dashing into the forest, whilst the other one whose 

 head I now coveted had turned east again, and was making 

 for a gravel bank about half a mile on our back tracks. 

 The wind being perfect, I easily headed the deer, and gave 

 her a bullet immediately she landed on the shore. She 

 carried unusually large horns of twelve points, and was 

 evidently an old " yeld " doe. 



As a rule caribou does have no horns to speak of, and 

 as it was of scientific interest to know what proportion of 

 females carried these cranial appendages, I kept a careful 

 list of all the deer seen by myself during the trip, and what 

 percentage of, in this case, the uglier sex, were so ornamented. 



Number of female caribou seen, 306 ; made up of i with 

 twelve points, i with eight points, 6 with four points, 40 with 

 three points, (about) 120 with two points, 130 with no horns, 

 or with only small knobby excrescences. 



On our way home we noticed little sign of stags travelling ; 

 but on going up out of the forest we ran right up against a 

 good beast, which I killed without any stalking, or in fact 

 any incident that is worth recording. He simply stood and 

 looked at me from about fifty yards, and I shot him from 

 the shoulder. He had a pretty but not a large head of 

 twenty-six points, and was evidently a young stag. 



