xiv British Deer and their Horns 
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The herd of white red deer, Welbeck, 1896 . . . . . . . .31 
The herd of white red deer, Welbeck, 1896 . . . . . . . . .34 
Head of an albino stag, Welbeck ........... 35 
A bit of action ............. 38 
Yearling hinds, Ardverikie ........... 40 
Hinds (from a photograph by Geoffrey Millais) . . . . . . . . 41 
Deer swimming a loch, showing the manner the heads are raised when approaching shallows . . .42 
“To pass elsewhere” (from a drawing by Sidney Steel) . . . . . . . .43 
Various British animals swimming, and their positions in the water . . . . . .44 
Getting the wind ............ 46 
“ Yon auld deil o’ a hind ” ........... 47 
The best in the forest with his fag on the watch ......... 48 
“Just for this week I can bully you” .......... 49 
Stags fighting ............. 50 
Roused .............. 50 
A soiling pool . . . . . . . . . . . . .51 
Hinds coming into shelter before a storm (from a drawing by Sidney Steel) . . . . 53 
The drinking pool, Inverewe, Ross, N.B. . . . . . . . . - 55 
How the golden eagle sometimes gets a dinner . . . . . . . . -57 
A drive (from a drawing by Sidney Steel) . . . . . . . . .58 
A stag shot through the lungs . . . . . . . . . . .59 
The big stag of Glen Ettive (photograph of wild deer taken from nature in the Black Mount) . . .60 
A stag shot through the heart . . . . . . . . . . .61 
FIELD NOTES AND STALKING YARNS 
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The Sanctuary, Ardverikie ......... To face page 62 
IN THE TEXT 
The first breath of winter ........... 63 
Wait a bit, the best is generally last .......... 64 
A hind charging at an eagle that has alighted near her calf . . . . . . .65 
Stags feeding as they move ........... 66 
That confounded grouse ............ 68 
“ Speaks, and, in accents disconsolate, answers the wail of the forest ” . . . . . .69 
In rags and tatters : wild stags, August . . . . . . . . . .71 
The head stalker, Black Mount, with pony and stag . . . . . . . .74 
The stalkers, Black Mount ........... 75 
A DAY IN LARIG DOCHART 
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Corrie Hourich, Black Mount ......... To face page 78 
IN THE TEXT 
Illustrative letter W . . . . . . . . . . . .78 
“Some grouse and blackgame came over, and all their heads went up at once” (photograph of wild deer from 
nature taken in the forest of the Black Mount) 
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