RED DEER, FALLOW DEER & ROE 
caution to avoid confusing these with true red deer. Austrian sportsmen 
of the best type resent this influx of new blood and declare that there are 
now few forests where it does not exist. The first crosses are easily recog- 
nized, but the second and third crosses are often difficult and sometimes 
impossible to detect. 
Very few English sportsmen have had the opportunity to and do possess 
fine Continental red deer trophies of their own shooting. Mr E.N. Buxtonwas, 
I think, the first lucky man, and he killed a remarkable eighteen -pointer 
of 52 inches in length at Tartarow as a guest of Prince Henry of Liechten- 
stein in the year 1896. It is one of the five best heads ever shot there 
and has few superiors in Europe. Mr Rhys Williams killed a 52 J -inch 
head in the year he rented the forest of Count Andrassy, and two other 
Englishmen, Mr Whitbread and Mr Oldfield, have each killed noble 
heads of 48 inches in Hungary. I possess a very heavy head of sixteen points 
and 54 inches’ span, killed in the East Carpathians at Bukovina, certainly 
one of the best recent red deer heads and the gem of the late Viscount 
Powerscourt’s collection; but, alas! I did not shoot it, though I have hopes 
that some day I may get a good one. Few Englishmen go to Hungary or 
the Carpathians for red deer. Good heads are, of course, rare, but they 
are, when obtained, far superior to the best heads from New Zealand, 
where so many sportsmen go. 
The following table will give some idea of the best European red deer 
heads, exclusive of those in the Moritzburg collection. 
CONTINENTAL RED DEER. 
Hungary, Danube Marshes and Galicia. 
Length. 
Circ. 
above 
beam. 
Spread. 
Points. 
Weight of 
Horns and 
Frontlet. 
Weight of 
Stag. 
Locality. 
Owner. 
531 
81 
16 
23 lb. 6i 
526 lb. 
Zempler, Hungary 
Count Andrassy 
53* 
10 
— 
18 
over 20 lb. 
543 lb. 
Tartarow, Galicia 
H.R.H. D. Miguel 
Duke of Braganza 
52* 
6f 
40 
11 
— 
— 
Transylvania 
Rhys Williams 
52 
7*25 
45 
18 
20 lb. 5 
504 lb. 
Galicia 
E. N. Buxton 
51* 
6* 
— 
18 
19 lb. 1 
— 
Unghvar 
Count Szechenyi 
51 
7 
47 
14 
23 lb. 
519 lb. 
Zempler, Hungary 
Count Andrassy 
51 
7 
39 
16 
— 
— 
Galicia 
Prince Henry of 
Liechtenstein 
50* 
— 
— 
16 
— 
— 
Hungary 
Count Andrassy 
50-4 
60S 
55*9 
21 
21 lb. 3 
— i 
Pilis Mountains 
Duke of Ratibor 
50 
7* 
— 
14 
20 lb. 8 
418 lb. 
Bellye 
Archduke Frederick 
50 
7f 
48 
18 
— 
— 
Tartarow, Galicia 
R. Pick 
50 
71 
— 
10 
— 
— 
Hungary 
Count Szechenyi 
49f* 
— 
14 
31 lb. 
” 
Radauc 
Prince L. Rohan 
‘The heaviest recently killed. 
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