Fallow Deer Horns 
163 
Length 
Span (extreme) 
Beam Palm 
Points 
281 
35 
4 
6 
Killed 26 th August 1873. Seven years old ; 
as he fell, 237-J- lbs.; 198 lbs. clean. 
28 
26 
4 
5 
18 1 
Killed 19th August 1871. Seven years old ; 
as he fell, 224 lbs. 
give 
a sketch of 
one 
of them (p. 
i6 5 )- 
There are many parks of course in England, particularly in the south, where fallow 
bucks carry fine heads, and probably the two where they are uniformly best are Petworth, 
Lord Leconfield’s big park in Sussex, and Ashton Park in Lancashire, the property of Mr. 
FALLOW BUCKS’ HEADS, WELBECK 
Showing the light spotted form on right of picture, pure albino on the left, and intermediate types between them. 
Williamson, M.P. Mr. Bishop of Lancaster Gate has two first-class heads from this park, 
and Mr. Whitaker gave a picture in the Field for 27th April 1895 of a fine head from the 
same place. On the last occasion on which I visited the Petworth herd, in August 1896, in 
a group of about a hundred adult bucks I saw eight or nine with grand heads, none of which 
could have been much less than 28 inches in length, and 7 to 8 inches in breadth across the 
palms, exclusive of course of any points. One day I obtained from Sam Redman, an old 
whip of the Petworth hounds, a head which he and the keepers said was the best killed 
during the last twenty years. It is certainly a perfect and typical example of what a fallow 
1 A very curious fact about this buck was that his hardly mature five-year-old dropped horns were superior in every way to 
those on his head at the time of death, when he was in his prime. 
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