THE RED DEER 
let go so as to shorten the course and keep the stag from travelling too 
far and playing havoc in the forest, but more often this was unnecessary, 
and two hounds did the work. Having once picked their stag, the hounds 
were seldom distracted, and would run their quarry through a large herd 
of deer without turning to right or left. The course generally lasted for 
two miles or so, and the best dogs were capable of dragging down, and 
even killing, the stag single handed. By his sportsmanlike conduct Mr 
Angelo no doubt sent a good many deer to his neighbours’ ground, but I 
have no doubt he also had a great deal of fun for himself and those who 
were allowed to witness the hunt. With the deerhounds he usually killed 
about twenty stags every season. 
J. G. MILLAIS. 
WEIGHTS AND ANTLERS OF BRITISH DEER 
Red deer are found throughout Eastern Europe, Western Asia, Northern 
and Central Europe, Barbary, Corsica and Sardinia. In all the countries in 
which it dwells, as, in degree, is the case in every park and forest where 
it is isolated, there are trifling differences between the races of Red deer. 
For all practical purposes, however, it is exactly the same species slightly 
altered owing to geographical distribution. Environment and climate play 
a very important part in the development or deterioration of this species, 
for no animal improves or retrogrades more quickly when placed in 
fortunate or uncongenial surroundings than the Red deer. 
In the great marshes of the Danube, certain parts of Hungary, the 
south-eastern Carpathians, the western Caucasus, and in Asia Minor 
the Red deer grows to an enormous size, attaining even to 45 stone clean, 
35 stone being no unusual weight in the Carpathians, whilst a stag killed on 
Mt Olympus, Asia Minor, is said to have weighed (dead weight) 75 stone,* 
probably reckoning 8 lb. to the stone. 
The following table gives a list of the sportsman’s weights (that is with- 
out heart, liver, and entrails) of British stags, reckoning 14 lb. to the stone: 
SCOTLAND Stones 
Parts of North-West Scotland, Harris and The Lews .... 9 to 13 
North Uist 16 „ 21 
Skye 10 „ 15 
Open forest ground 11 ,, 22 
Woodland stags 15 ,, 30 
Arran 16 ,, 30 
Jura and other islands 15 ,, 22^ 
35 
* Field, June 29, 1895. 
