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noticed how gradually both the roe and their heads deteriorate as one moves north ; 
particularly so is there a marked change between bucks killed in the low-ground woods of 
Stanley, Scone, and Black Park, and those killed on the heather grounds north of Murthly, 
only 7 miles distant. Murthly itself is partly heather ground and partly low ground, and 
it is quite possible to recognise the two types of bucks which exist there, those that had 
worked in from Strathord and the south being far superior to those from Rohallion and 
Dunkeld way. 
About Forres there are the grand woods of Darnaway, Cawdor, Burgie, Westerton, 
Altyre, etc., which are all full of roe. In the big wood round Cawdor Castle there are 
DUNKELD WOODS AND THE VALLEY OF THE TAY 
From a water-colour by William Millais. 
probably to-day more roe than in any other wood of its size in Scotland, not even excepting 
Farley. 
In Beauly district there are many roe in the big woods on the sides of the river up 
to Strathglass and Guisachan. Starting from Beauly itself, there is the beautiful Beaufort 
estate, on which there were, till recently, more roe than in any other estate in Scotland. 
Here is the famous Farley wood, where probably more roe have been killed than in any one 
wood in the North. 
On Beaufort too are the two other great woods of Boblainey and Altnacliach, where a 
large number of roe can still be killed. Moniack and Clunes, in this district, are also good 
for roe, whilst up Strathconon and Dingwall way all the woods used to hold a good number 
of fine roe. 
In Mull they were introduced in 1865, and are now thriving there. 
The distribution of roe in the south of Scotland is not nearly so well known, so it is 
necessary to particularise more. There were no roe, at any rate till recently, in either 
Berwickshire or Roxburghshire, and though some appeared in Selkirkshire, on the Duke 
