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British Deer and their Horns 
12,000 men, and hounded and hawked all the country and bounds, and killed eighteen score harts. Next 
summer he went to hunt in Athol, accompanied by Queen Margaret and the Pope s Ambassador, where 
he remained three days most nobly entertained by the Earl, and killed thirty score of hart and hynd, with 
other small beasts, as roe and roebuck, wolf and fox, and wild cats. 
A little later on, Queen Mary of Scotland hunted with equal pomp and circumstance. 
Of her most famous hunt minute particulars are given by Barclay, who says that on this 
notable occasion scouts were sent out to gather the deer in, not only in Athole but in Mar, 
Badenoch, and Moray, and that the result was 360 deer, 5 wolves, and some roes. 
DEER SWIMMING A LOCH 
Showing the manner in which the heads are raised when approaching shallows. 
To-day it is estimated that there are over 2,000,000 acres devoted to the maintenance 
of deer in Scotland, and that about 5000 stags are annually killed. The deer forests number 
111, exclusive of those that have been formed since 1883 ; an d according to Mr. Grimble 
they are distributed as follows : Aberdeenshire, 5 ; Argyleshire, 8 ; Banffshire, 2 ; Buteshire, 
1 ; Caithness-shire, 1 ; Forfarshire, 3 ; Inverness-shire, 39 ; Perthshire, 8 ; Ross-shire, 38 ; 
and Sutherlandshire, 6. Of these, Mr. Malcolm tells us, 20 were formed prior to 1800, 59 
from 1800 to 1872, and 30 from 1872 to 1883. And now 21 more forests must be added to 
the account, for since 1883 estates to that number have been cleared of sheep and are now let 
as forests to sportsmen, who are glad to take what they can get in that way so near at home. 
