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Stags’ Heads 
SOME FIRST-CLASS HEADS — continued. 
Owner. 
Points. 
Length. 
Span. 
Beam 
above bay. 1 
Remarks. 
Lord Alexander Paget 
9 
34 i 
33 
4 i 
Corrour, ioth October 1892. Shot by owner. 
John Hargreaves . 
9 
33 
3 ° 
4 i 
Killed in Corrie Bhran, Gaick. Shot by the late J. 
Hargreaves, sen. 
5 * 95 . . • 
8 
35 
2 l\ 
4 i 
Killed in Cairn Thomais, Gaick, by owner. 
55 59 • • * 
9 
1 33 i 
2 9 i 
4 t 
Killed Corrie Diareaig, Gaick, by owner, 1894. 
12 
A Royal, no measurements taken. Shot by Colonel 
- Rhodes in Gaick* of beautiful shape (figured). 
These four heads are the best killed in Gaick of recent 
years, and till lately were at Maiden Erlegh, Berks. 
W. Stirling .... 
H 
3 *h 
26 
Good points, very even head, Monar. 
95 * 
11 
3*1 
32 
4 ! 
Monar. 
10 
34 
| 30 
4 >? 
Monar. 
T. W. Gill .... 
10 
35 
34 
' North Morar. 
12 
3 2 i 
32 
6 
The Earl of Ancaster . 
12 
33 
25 
6 | 
! Shot at Gildermorie, Ross-shire, by owner. 
H 
34 
26 
7 
1 Glenartney. Shot by owner. A very thick head. 
99 5 5 
Sidney Loder 
13 
3 ° 
27 
6 
Shot in Glen Cannich, 1892. Weight 17 stone 2 lbs. : 
5 
(single¬ 
horned stag) 
8 
33 
6 \ 
; Athole Forest, 1890. Weight 17 stone 7 lbs. 
• • • 
32 
3 °i 
6 
Benula Forest, 1894. Weight 17 stone 10 lbs. 
The above, all killed within the last twenty years, include the best examples from several 
of the best Highland forests, and we see that most houses on well-managed estates have only 
two or three such heads to show. 
Sir George Macpherson Grant at Ballindalloch has three grand heads, which come quite 
at the top of the first-class standard. Sir E. Loder has three beauties, a io- (figured), a 12-, 
and a 14-pointer, killed by himself at Kintail in 1894. In the grand collection at Gordon 
Castle are several such heads, notably a io-pointer (figured) and a 14-pointer, both of which 
were killed by the Earl of March, and hang in the smoking-room. In Balmacaan there is a 
grand collection, made by the Earls of Seafield, as also at Dunrobin and Auchnacarry, though 
I have not seen that formed by the present Lochiel. 
Judging mainly from the heads passing through the hands of the taxidermists, the best 
of the present day are now coming, for the most part, from the following forests : Athole, 
Invermark, Drummond Hill, Ben Alder, Gaick, Langwell, Dunrobin (the wood deer), 
Killilan, Kintail, Guisachan, Glenquoich, Beaufort and Farley, Affaric, Glenfeshte, Brawlen, 
Coignafearn, Struy, Lochrosque, Morar, Monar, and Mar.' 
Curiosities of horn-growth where the stag, owing to injury during the growth of the 
horn, throws out points or branches in any direction are now so common and (if one may 
use such a paradox) so regular in their irregularity, that all sportsmen know what they are 
like. They are never beautiful, and it is very seldom that they are interesting. There are 
the “ Cromie” heads of Jura, which seem to occur, according to Mr. Henry Evans’s account, 
1 The season that has just dosed has certainly been a good one, and Mr. William Macleay, m a note (ist November) in 
which he states that there has been no head killed which excels, says that the best heads of the year have come from Glen 
Affaric, Clunie, Glenquoich, Killilan, and Knoydart. 
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