Roe-Stalking and Roe Heads 2,13 
surroundings are so pre-eminently suitable to the little deer that they have attained to a pitch 
of excellence in a short time that is little short of wonderful. They are not numerous, and 
Sir Henry Gore Booth, the owner, takes a just pride in his roe and shoots only a few 
annually. Being prevented by illness from accepting that gentleman’s kind invitation to see 
his ground and the heads in the house, Sir Henry most kindly packed up his best heads and 
sent them over to me. Sir Henry sends me his three best examples of the various types—the 
wonderful 12-pointer, the best normal head, and the best malformed head. They are all 
extraordinary, and it is not too much to say that the Royal roebuck is quite the most 
wonderful roe’s head in Great Britain (until some one shows us a better one). The immense 
thickness and weight of horn throughout, in addition to the extraordinary number of 
In this manner the great thickness of this remarkable head can be seen and all the points counted. 
genuine points, place it in a class by itself, and it is doubtful if any recent German head can 
show such a remarkable horn-growth. It is just what the Warnham head is amongst park 
deer. From the front, beyond the great double brow points, its massiveness makes the horns 
look short, whereas, as a matter of fact, they are well above the average length of a good roe 
head. It is only by looking down on the head from the top and back that one can 
appreciate the great size, thickness, and roughness all through. (The best normal head 
should, I think, take rank with Colonel Gordon-Cumming’s and one in my possession. All 
three heads are quite perfect in every way ; all are 11 inches or over, of good shape, 
excellent roughness, and have long, well-developed brows and tops.) In addition to these 
three, Sir Henry kindly sent for inspection two dropped horns that had been picked up. 
They certainly look like the right and left horns of the Royal roebuck in two previous years; 
but the owner thinks otherwise, and that they belonged to another great buck that is still 
