STAG, HIND, AND CALF. 119 



The only points which may with certainty be looked 

 for on the head of a stag are the brow and trey. 

 After much examination, the writer has discovered but 

 five cases in the last eighty years of a stag lacking 

 either or both of his brow antlers. In three of them 

 it is wanting on one side only ; in the other two cases 

 the horns are absolutely pointless, in fact more like 

 those of a bullock in the matter of growth. The 

 absence of the trey is less uncommon both among 

 young deer and "baters;" but brow and two on top 

 of both sides (like the Sambur deer of India) is very 

 rare indeed. 



It is also very rare for brow, bay, or trey to be 

 bifurcated. Occasionally brow and bay are so close 

 together at the root as to present an appearance 

 thereof; but only one instance of bifurcated bay and 

 one more of bifurcated trey on the head of an Ex- 

 moor stag are known to the writer. Among German 

 deer the trey is frequently forked, and sometimes 

 bears as many as four points. 



As regards the number of points on top, two stags, 

 and two only, of those killed on Exmoor are recorded 

 to have borne seven on one side and six on the other ; 

 the first was taken In 1786 under Sir Thomas Acland, 

 the second in 187 1 under Mr. BIsset. (Courtenay 



