The Goto Donana 



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RED DEER HEADS— C'CTO DONANA. 



This list is neither comprehensive nor consecutive, but merely a record of such 

 good and typical heads as we happened to have within reach. 



For Table of Heads of Mountain-Deer see Chajjter on Sierra Morena. . 



^ Weight, clean, two days killed, 78 kilos = 180 lbs. 



Ordinary Royals (by which we mean full-grown stags in their 

 first prime) average 24 or 25 inches in length of horn. Heads of 

 26 to 28 inches belong to rather older beasts which have continued 

 to improve. Anything beyond the latter measurement is quite 

 exceptional, and is often due, not so much to fair straight length 

 of the main beam as to an abnormal development of one of the 

 top tines — usually directed backwards. There are, however, 

 included in our records two or three examples of long straight 

 heads which fairly exceed the 30-inch length. 



