THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
four points, and the general average of the young stock is in every way 
excellent, so that Mr Lucas has difficulty in supplying the annual demand 
for stags to go to other English parks. Highland forests. New Zealand 
and Canada. The deer at Warnham are not fed in the winter, but numerous 
boughs of trees cut from the copses are given them in the spring; and 
they much enjoy peeling the bark off these. Half of the park is railed off 
every year and treated with lime and phosphates, and sometimes with 
basic slag. Park stags seem to thrive best on a heavy clay soil, as the grass 
on this gives greater nutriment, and has more bone -forming qualities 
than that of the light lands. 
PARK STAGS’ HEADS 
Length. 
Circ. 
Spread 
over all. 
Inside 
Span. 
Points. 
Locality. 
Owner. 
Remarks and by whom measured. 
44i 


22 
Warnham 
C. J. Lucas 
Measured by J. G. M. 
43 i 
5i 
51i 
33k 
12x9 
Woburn 
Duke of 
Bedford 
(R. W.) 
42k 
6f 
40 
— 
12 
Melbury, 
Dorset 
Earl of Ilches* 
ter 
Figured in British Deer and their Horns, 
p. 99. (J. G. M.) 
41i 
5 
41 
32 
7X6 
Langley, Bucks 
J. G. Millais 
Figured in The Mammals of Great Britain 
and Ireland, p. 102. (R. W.) 
40 
— 
41 
— 
7x7 
Bristol 
Sir J. Smythe 
40i 
5i 
41 
31 
5x5 
— 
R. V. Berkeley 
40 
7 
43 
32 
Warnham 
Court, Sussex 
J. G. Millais 
Figured in The Mammals of Great Britain 
and Ireland, p. 99. Weight of horns 
without skull, 18 lb. 
40 
4} 
401 
331 
6X7 
— 
W. Cooper 
(R. W.) 
39J 
Si 
351 
26f 
5x5 
Woburn 
Duke of 
Bedford 
(R. W.) 
39 
Si 
33i 
211 
6x6 
— 
W. Cooper 
(R. W.) 
39 
6 
34 
— 
19 
Vaynol Park 
Viscount 
Powerscourt 
(J. G. M.) 
34 
6 
451 
254 
44 
Warnham 
Court, Sussex 
C. J. Lucas 
Figured in The Mammals of Great Britain 
and Ireland, p. 98. (J. G. M.) 
33 
6i 
54 
23 
26 
Warnham 
Court, Sussex 
C. J. Lucas 
Right-hand figure, p. 97, in The Mam- 
mals of Great Britain and Ireland. 
(J. G. M.) 
There are, of course, hundreds of examples of park deer shorter than 
38 inches, and I have only given the last two because they are remarkable 
in other respects. 
HEADS OF RED DEER UNDER SEMI -FERAL CONDITIONS 
The German and Austrian sportsmen place in a separate category 
the heads of Red deer which have a considerable range — 2,000 acres and 
above — over moors, woods, and grassy uplands; and where they live in 
a semi -wild state, and grow antlers somewhat similar to those of purely 
wild stags; but with the strength of beam and length of inferior park 
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