298 JAPANESE DEER 



Britain has been triumphantly proved by 

 Lord PowerscoLirt, who started at Powers- 

 court in i860 with three does and a buck, 

 and in 1884 had over a hundred, in addition 

 to many which had been shot or given away. 

 Writing under correction, I think the Shoot- 

 ing Times said that there were now no 

 Japanese deer at Powerscourt, so that the 

 herd must have recently been dispersed or 

 sold. There is (or was when I was hunting 

 with the Grafton a few years ago), however, 

 a large herd at Whittlebury Park, Sir G. 

 Loder's place near Towcester. But it is 

 not as park deer that I wish to bring the 

 animals to the notice of the English 

 sportsmen. 



The antlers of the Japanese deer have 

 nominally eight points, viz., brow, tray, and 

 two on top of each horn, but the anterior 



