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in this respect. At Monymusk, where Sir Arthur Grant kills about forty in the year, 
nearly half the heads have some deformity, which he attributes to wire fences. If the reader 
has ever seen a buck going through (or under) a wire fence when he is frightened, he will 
then understand how the damage is done. In Germany these “ sport ” heads are looked 
upon as great treasures, and large sums are paid for them. The three best I have seen are 
here figured, two being in the collection of the late C. Macpherson Grant, and now at 
Drumduan House, Forres, 1 and the third, an Irish one, in the possession of Sir Henry 
Gore Booth. 
An average head measures 8 inches, with a brow point of 2 inches, and a coronet 
1 This fine collection includes many good heads shot and presented to the late C. Macpherson Grant by the late Basil 
Brooke, a well-known roe-hunter of his day. Now it has passed into the possession of Sir George Macpherson Grant, to whom 
I am indebted for being allowed to reproduce the best heads. 
Roe-Stalking and Roe Heads 
out a far finer growth just before death than he had done in the previous years when in 
first-rate health, the coronets being really fine. 
A good roebuck’s head is certainly a thing of beauty, and though not large, is well 
worthy of an honoured place on a sportsman’s walls. Perhaps its chief attraction lies in its 
roughness, so characteristic of the rugged hill-sides and shaggy woods where it loves to dwell. 
The horns themselves are more liable to malformation than those of any other deer, 
for the animals, with their habits of diving headlong through the cover when they are 
frightened, and moving about at night when their horns are constantly in a soft condition, 
strike them against obstacles. Wire fences too, when first put up, have much to answer for 
HEADS WITH AN UNUSUAL NUMBER OF POINTS 
