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Old stags often grow eccentric and deformed heads. 

 There is a pair of horns at Eggesford which came off 

 a very fat old stag many years ago, which are merely 

 uprights about a foot long : a nine-year-old stag had 

 a similar head in 1872. Cases of brow antler and 

 upright on one side, or brow, trey and very short 

 points on top, are not uncommon, but I have never 



seen a perfect caber slat head (brow and a long up- 

 right) : and it is curious they should not exist in the 

 West of England, though they are of frequent oc- 

 currence in Scotland. Bifurcated bay and trey antlers, 

 which are often seen in Germany, are very rare on 

 Exmoor ; but Nott stags are not unknown. The only 



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