Fallow Deer Horns 
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for me, and a glance at their picture will show better than any explanation the strong 
tendency there is in all the horns to bifurcate in the upper branches and not to fill up in one 
palmated mass, as is the case in park fallow deer. Now and again heads without any sign of 
this break seem to occur, and the back point shows in its proper place without being carried 
away up into the back palms, which therefore shows that either one type is the same as the 
other with individual variation, or that two original types must have existed in England. 
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NEW FOREST HEADS (WILD), OUEEn’s HOUSE, LYNDHURST, HANTS 
These New Forest heads are remarkable for their length, and the length of their points, 
especially in the case of the brows. Mr. Lascelles writes, “ Most of the finest heads, 
especially old deer, differ very much from the normal form of a park head. The palmated 
part is, in these heads, very much split up, so much so as to look like red deer heads with an 
abnormal number of points, and almost to lose the palmated character altogether—some 
indeed have lost it entirely.” The measurement of the two best heads he gives as follows :— 
Length 
Span (extreme) 
Circumference of Beam 
27 
2 5 
\\ inches 
261 
24 
4J inches 
