46 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXVIII, 
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tips. 
In- Length of Girthyabovesy emia we AG 
dex horns. brow antler. Tines. Sportsman. 
No. Greatest | Tip to 
tip. 
6 47!" 63” 46” 29” 6x7 |A. E. Ward in Sind 
Valley. 
7 47” rid as” | va 6x6 |F. L. Edge, 1918. 
Sulaous 47” bY” AB 281” | 5x4 |Major Fardell, 1918. 
9 464" 61” 45 “| 193”. | 5x5 |Sir HariSingh, 1918. 
10 463" eh es a .. |Major P. Radclyfie, 
; 1918. 
11 46’ 64” 36” Lb” .. |Miss Manners Smith, 
1917. 
12 46” 62 43” 173” .. |Genl. Berners, 1920. 
13 46” ue 50” Aten .. |Aziz Khan, Liddar. 
14 46"’ 53” aovl 122 6x6 |Sir Hari Singh, 1917. 
15 46" 622 50” a 6x6 |A. E. Ward, Liddar. 
16 46” 6” 39” 16” «. |H.1C@. Rallant, 1917: 
17 46” 63” Ae ss 6x5 |Dachgam Rukh, 
1918. 
46” irs =e et 6x6 |A. E. Ward, 1912. 
18 
434°’ 7h" ae oe 5x5 |A E. Ward, 1912. 
19 
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The photographs are of two stag heads both under 46, but they are showy 
Specimens. 
The Maharaja Kumar of Tikari lately shout two every large heads, the 
measurements are not just now available. 
There is available a long list of horns of 44” in length, some are grand trophies, 
they are mostly ten pointers. The last head entered is probably the thickest 
recorded. Barasingh seldom have heavy short horns; as they pass out of their 
prime the tendency is for the horns to become thin and irregular. 
In the Society’s Museum there is a fourteen-point head and _ its history is as 
follows: Many years ago it was brought together with a second one for sale to 
Kotsu in the Liddar, Aziz Khan, who has a 46” pair of horns (No. 13 in the 
list), said he had shot both the stags. In those days it was lawful to shoot and 
sell horns. From Aziz Khan the head passed into Monsieur Henri Dauvergne’s 
possession, and at one time was in the Murree Brewery house at Rawalpindi. 
The shooting season extends from September 15th to March 15th but few 
heads are out of velvet’early in September, and some of the bigger animals drop 
their antlers early in March. 
The local Shikari is a necessity ; he must know every deer path, every pool 
which is used for soiling or for drinking at. The rutting stag eats little but 
bathes and drinks frequently. It may be that a travelling beast is met with, 
but as a rule it will be necessary to be up early, and wander far before the much 
longed for call is heard. 
