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of the ancient methods of hunting already alluded to, and so often 

 spoken of by our older authorities. 



The Rev. J. W. Taylor, in his Hisforu'ol Antiquities of Fife, etc., 

 referring to place-names — e.g. "Deer drink," etc. — says: "But the 

 Deer have all disappeared*'; and he goes on to relate in his own 

 experiences of the district {i.e. aroimd Flisk) for thii-ty years, at the 

 date of his writing, he " had only once caught sight of a Stag, as it 

 bounded through a copsewootl" {op. cit., p. 6). 



In the east of our area, Mr. J. Milne tells me Deer are now com- 

 paratively rarely seen outside the enclosed grounds which have been 

 provided for them upon the property of Fasque. Formerly on the 

 Dnimtochty Moors Mr. Milne has seen as many as forty together in 

 Annachar Glen. 



The herds of the Blackmomit Deer-forest and those of adjoining 

 grounds of Sir N. Menzies and Ben Alder and Corrour often inter- 

 mingle, those of the Blackmount feeding eastwards in an east wind, 

 and coming over the Moor of Rannoch, cross the river Gower 

 into the grounds to the east of that river, as I have on many 

 occasions myself known and witnessed when shooting on the Moor 

 of Rannoch. An east wind invariably brought them away east from 

 the Blackmount marches. Mr. Godfrey saw a herd of some seven- 

 teen Hinds close above Dunan, and others at Loch Eigheach (pron. 

 Eagh). This, of course, was in the summer-time. 



Though, as I have said, the Deer come out of Glen Artney in the 

 south-west of oiu* area, and pass between Glen Artney and Glen Finlas, 

 it is not often they are seen in Glen Ogle — as I am informed by Mr. 

 Godfrey, and as I have previously been assured locally when I used 

 to shoot there when Messrs. Duncan and Dixon had these shootings 

 from Lady Macgregor. 



The Scotsman and the Field are the two papers which give a 

 correct account of the infuriated semi-domesticated Stag which 

 attacked my friend Mr. Andrew "Williamson, as I was assured by 

 himself {in lit. 26th March 1892)— v. Field, October 31, 1891. Tliis 

 was in the Deer-park at St. Martens, near Perth, which place he had 

 the shootings of at that time. In his letter he also told me he " had 

 very nearly to shoot another of the same lot after he had recovered 

 from his wounds." This other Stag came up to within ten yards, and 

 he was prepared to shoot it when the keeper and his dog appeared 

 on the scene, and the Stag turned and made off. (See also how 

 Maclennan, forester in Glen Fannich Forest (Moray), was gored and 

 killed. — V. Fauna of Moray.) 



