CHAMOIS 
CHAMOIS HORNS (BUCKS). 
Length on 
Front 
Curve. 
Circ. 
Tip to Tip. 
Spread. 
Locality. 
Owner. 
121* 



Hungary 
Baron Donald Schonberg 
121 
— 
— 
— 
Hungary 
C. G. Danford 
121 
41 
51 
7i 
Carpathians 
Count Arpad Teleki 
121 
31 
6* 
Carpathians 
C. G. Danford 
12 
4 
— 
— 
Hinter Riss 
H.R.H. the Duke of Saxe-Coburg 
and Gotha. 
12 
— 
— 
— 
Tyrol 
Count Arco 
12 
— 
— 
— 
Carpathians 
Count Zdenko Kinsky 
111 
3f 
— 
— 
Carpathians 
Count Erbach 
111 
61 
— 
Engadine 
Sir A. Pease 
111 
31 
71 
— 
S. Austria 
J. H. Leigh 
111 
31 
5* 
— 
S. Austria 
R. K. Cross 
11* 
— 
Carpathians 
G. von Kendeffy 
11 
H 
4 A 
— 
Transylvania 
F. C. Selous 
11 
31 
71 
51 
— 
Transylvania 
St George Littledale 
11 
31 
“ 
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Count John of Meran 
in autumn. One of these “ Royal ” drives was shown recently in Vienna 
on the cinematograph, and the pictures convey an excellent idea of the 
day’s proceedings. The rifles, numbering eight or ten, rode up the moun- 
tains to the stone shelters to which the game was driven. Literally hun- 
dreds of chamois came to the guns, and in the pictures a string of ad- 
vancing game, halting, running and springing over the rocks, as well 
as the shots that proved fatal, were clearly seen. I must confess that the 
sport did not impress me greatly, any more than the pictures of a distin- 
guished person shooting twenty or thirty foxes with buckshot did. In 
chamois driving any skill that is required is exercised by the beaters, who 
often have to undertake severe climbs and use much ingenuity in keeping 
the game forward to the guns. The wind in high mountains is always a 
doubtful element and may put chamois off the ground by passes known to 
them before they can be prevented. In wide areas a large number of 
drivers could hardly force the game in the required direction if the wind 
is wrong and, inconsequence, the “lappen” or flags are employed. These 
aids to sport consist of miles of stout cord to which at intervals of every few 
feet bright -coloured pieces of linen are attached. They are kept in position 
by rods fastened in the rocks and the line, when fixed, serves as an effective 
barrier, as the flags wave to and fro in the breeze, to chamois that would 
break out of the drive. Generally the “lappen” are strung out along the 
ridge of mountains to be enclosed. 
•Some doubt exists as to the measurement of this head. The above is, I think, the correct length. — J. G. M. 
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