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“As a feather is wafted downward from an eagle in her flight” . . . . . . .80 
What we are all looking for . . . . . . . . . .81 
Hidden away behind some peat hag, he passes most of the day . . . . . • .82 
Feeding nervously after being moved (from a drawing by E. Roe) . . . . . 83 
“ He’s a’ richt ” . . . . • . • • . . . . .85 
The last chance before night (from a drawing by E. Roe) . . . . . . .86 
Waiting for Donald ............ 87 
STAGS’ HEADS 
ELECTRO-ETCHING 
Sunshine on Ben Alder . 
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Growth of a stag’s horns in one season (park), (drawn from nature in Warnham Court Park, Sussex, as the develop¬ 
ment took place) ............ 93 
The three best years of the great Warnham head, from three points of view . . . . .109 
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The largest stag’s head in the world ...... 
Normal horn-casting of a park stag ...... 
Series of horns grown by a stag under semi-feral conditions, Blair Castle, Perthshire 
Antler of the third year with what appears to be the second-year horn still attached 
Two large fossil heads in the Natural History Museum, South Kensington 
Head of a stag taken from the peat moss at Combermere, Cheshire, in the possession of the Duk 
(prehistoric)...... 
Sir Douglas Brooke’s Irish red deer head (prehistoric) 
Lord Powerscourt’s Irish red deer head (prehistoric) 
Ashton Park head (owner Sir Greville Smythe) . 
Melbury Park head ..... 
A Welbeck stag’s head (park) .... 
Head of a big Stoke stag, 1872 (park) 
Palmated and ordinary types, Warnham Court, 1895 (park) 
A good example of palmation (park) 
The great Warnham head, 1894 (park) . 
The big Warnham head (top view), 1894 
Head of the great Warnham stag, born 1880, shot 1894, showing 
Malformed growth of stag’s head (German) 
Head of a park stag with abnormal growth, Colebrooke . 
Malformed park stags’ heads, Welbeck 
Head of a big Warnham stag .... 
Stags’ heads grown under semi-feral conditions, Colebrooke, Ireland 
Wild English stags’ heads (after Collyns) 
A typical Irish head (wild), shot by Lord Castlerosse at Killarney, 
14-pointer shot at Muckross, Kerry, by Mr. Ralph Sneyd, 1894 
Scotch stags’ heads of to-day .... 
A typical wild Scotch head of forty years ago, shot at Erchless, Ross-shire 
Stags’ heads shot by the late Sir J. E. Millais at Kinloch-Luichart, 1867, and sketched by 
Deterioration due to isolation ..... 
Unusual horn-growth due to abundant winter feed (probably artificial) 
series of dropped antlers 
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