NEW ZEALAND STAGS’ HEADS 
might possibly be man-eaters, and one conservative old chief expressed 
the firm conviction that they were introduced by the white man for the 
express purpose of devouring the Maori people.” One wonders that they 
ever reached their destination alive. 
I have seen no New Zealand fallow bucks’ heads which surpass the 
best examples from Petworth, Uppark, the New Forest and Drummond 
Castle. The longest horn of which I have any measurements is 29 \ inches, 
and the head carried seventeen points. It was killed at Waikato. The 
longest Tapanui head is given as 21 \ inches and the greatest number of 
points twenty-six. Better heads may have been killed since. 
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