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British Deer and their Horns 
altogether in the owner’s smoking-room, but all are good, and two in particular, one a 
very rough head of 9-jr inches and the splendid 11-inch head (figured). These two are 
as fine examples of Scotch roe as one could see anywhere. 
5. Moniack Castle (Mr. J. Cameron).—This is decidedly a good, though small 
collection, the heads all having been obtained on the estate by Mr. Cameron’s two 
sons. There is one beautiful long pair of horns of io| inches, and another massive 
rough example with good heavy brows shot by Mr. Cameron’s youngest boy in 1891. 
6. Dupplin Castle (the Earl of Kinnoull).—On visiting Dupplin in 1895, I expected 
to see some really good specimens, for this estate is 
practically in the centre of the very best roe country 
(for heads) in Scotland ; but out of the seventy-eight 
in the house, there is not a single one which would 
even be called first class. In the heads from these 
grand woods the disparity of the two horns and their 
bad shape were most apparent, the only item of 
interest being a curious little dropped horn with 
three prongs of equal length. 
7. Author s Collection .—I have some fifty - five 
heads, most of which I have shot myself in different 
parts of Scotland. The individual shooter, however, 
even though he may kill a large number of roe, has 
little chance of obtaining many good heads in a 
lifetime, and perhaps never a first-class one. Luck 
has much to do with it, and I have but two of my 
own shooting which I can claim to be first class. 
A good roe’s head has always had a great fascina¬ 
tion for me, ever since I killed my first on Craig- 
vinean when I was ten years old. During the years 
I have been travelling and shooting in the North it has been my 
endeavour to get the best examples I could in each different district, as 
it is interesting to see the forms in which the very best heads display 
themselves under varying conditions of life. I have therefore now eight 
or nine heads which I have bought or acquired by exchange that are 
extraordinary. Three of these normal heads are, without prejudice, 
equal to the best Scotch roe that exist. My collection also includes 
a thick head with 10 points which was killed by a poacher near Stanley 
in 1886. 
Of the three normal heads some may admire one and some another, 
for they are as different as they can be, and each perfect in its own 
way. The one in the centre of the illustration is an old head, and 
was killed in a wire fence near Perth some fifty years ago. The example on the right 
was shot by Mr. J. Corballis in Sawmill Wood, Beaufort, and I obtained it from him. 
It is a perfect head and the brows are extraordinary. The late Lord Lovat, who was present 
Shot by Colonel Gordon-Cumming at Auchintoul, Aberdeen. 
One of the few Scotch heads in existence of unusual length which 
are good in every other respect. Length, u inches 5 span, 7J 
inches ; length of brow points, 3 J inches. 
