THE NEW FOREST DEER 91 



The following are the weights of a few good 

 deer taken from my game book. 



st. Ib. 



Aug. 20, 1893 Islands Thorns . . . 13 3 



Aug. 20, 1901, Oakley . . . . 13 10 



21, Ramnor . . . . 13 5 



Sept. 7, 1906, Islands Thorns . . . 13 10 



14, Wootton . . . . 14 6 



Aug. 8, 1907, Park Ground . . . 14 7 



1908, Denny . . . . 14 4 



Aug. 15, Shave Green . . . 13 8 



July 26, 1909, Denny . . . . 14 6 



Aug. 5, 1910, Shave Green . . . 14 



16, Parkhill . . . . 14 2 



Aug. 3, 1912, Getthornes . . . . 14 9 



17, 1914, Rakes Brakes . . . 13 10 



All these deer were weighed as deer usually 

 are in a Scotch forest, as they come off the hill 

 on the pony viz. clean, i.e. gralloched, but with 

 heart and liver left in. Head, skin, and horns, of 

 course, on the beast. The retention of heart and 

 liver varies in places. It means 10 Ibs. of the 

 weight. During the last decade or so, the deer in 

 the New Forest country have begun to increase so 

 rapidly, that we have had to kill a large number 

 of them. The reason for this is that they are so 

 well preserved, and are become so numerous in all 

 the vast chain of woodlands on the north side of 

 the Forest, that there is now a large herd of 

 deer scattered among these woodlands, associ- 

 ating and no doubt interbreeding with the Forest 



