Heads 
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Early in the season, in a big Northern forest where the deer have every kind of ground 
to roam over, we of course see them with both light and dark coloured antlers, but towards 
the end over 90 per cent are a blackish brown. This is so sure to be the case, and so much 
A GOOD EXAMPLE OF PALMATION. (PARK) 
are these dark antlers with white tips admired, that Mr. Macleay has found it necessary to 
put all his stags’ heads into his private peat wallow. 
I shall now endeavour to give some account of the best stags’ heads which have come 
under my notice, and have divided them into the following classes :— 
individual, for when additional colouring takes place it is due to the necessity of assimilation to environment. Sir Douglas 
Brooke too, I see, has called attention to the importance of the velvet question in stags that eventually become light or dark 
antlered. 
