Stags’ Heads 133 
Next year, 1892, the tenant of Eskadale was Mr. Lawrence Hardy. At the beginning of 
August a young friend from India, who had never seen a wild stag before, came to stay. He 
was sent out, as usual, with Hugh Ross at dawn to look for a roebuck along the side of the 
big wood. They of course ran bang up against the big stag standing at about 50 yards, 
broadside, in a corn-field. The young sportsman fired and the stag galloped away. When 
he had gone about 150 yards, Ross suggested that another barrel might be useful. Accord- 
LORD BURTON’S 20-POINTER, SHOT AT GLENQUOICH 
A head with an unusual number of points. Shot 1893. 
ingly another shot was fired, and down went the Eskadale monarch, with a bullet through 
the back of his neck. 
I have not the measurements of this splendid head, but in this case I did not take them, 
as they are immaterial. It is a head which of course would measure well, but its great 
beauty lies in its extraordinary thickness and wonderful roughness. I have never seen a 
head so rough or so beautifully beaded. 
5. Colonel Gordon-Cumming, the author of Wild Men and Wi/d Beasts in I?2dia , has in 
his house at Forres a famous head which formerly belonged to his brother Roualeyn, the 
South African hunter, who bought it for a large sum from old Snowie in Inverness. Its 
