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British Deer and their Horns 
in length, was thrown out on each stump. 
Possibly good feeding may have caused this, 
Shot by Sir J. E. Millais at Kinloch-Luichart, 1867, and sketched by him at the time. 
DETERIORATION DUE TO ISOLATION 
These are the last six heads shot by a friend in October 1896 in a well-known Inverness-shire forest. Only a short time ago this ground produced some of 
the best heads annually. Now it is all fenced. The animals breed in, and in the winter feeding is wretched ; of shelter there is very little, and needless to say 
the place is let to a new tenant every year. These stags were killed in October, when the best could be picked, and of these only one has brow points over 4 
inches. The whole season’s heads were like this with one exception. 
but I am strongly inclined to think that the operation had not been completely performed 
upon him.” 
