on the left, the most remarkable feature being that both brow tines are forked, the right having three, the left two points. A head shown by Count Traun has the left antler almost palmate on the top with six points, but no bay or trez antlers. Duke Johan von Liechtenstein showed two heads, which were very remarkable on account of their narrow span and abnormal palmation. A splendid thirteen-pointer, shown by Hugo Mossier, is no less than 1·6o metres in width.
With regard to the weights of these Hungarian stags it is difficult to get exact figures, because sometimes the stags are weighed as shot, some¬ times when brittled; and sometimes, no doubt, as it has occurred to me, it is impossible to get the body from where it fell without cutting it up, and then the weight is estimated, after weighing it in pieces. Mr. Baillie- Grohman quotes the heaviest weight known to him, as given by E. von Dombrowski, at 44 stone 4 pounds, equals 620 pounds. A head was shown by Count Schonbom Bucheim (numbered 6,129) from a stag whose weight was given as 270 kilogrammes. But I was assured that the heaviest stag killed in Javovina, a forest in the Hohe Tatra, was 397 kilogrammes as killed, and 312 kilogrammes when brittled, and this comes very near the weight given in Sport in the Alps, p. 178, of two stags killed in 1693 and 1696, as 850 and 835 pounds. A remarkable head killed by the German Emperor at Rominten in East Prussia has no less than forty-four points; but these are small and crowded on the top, in the style of the celebrated sixty-six pointer in the collection at Moritzburg. A selection of these relics of a bygone age was sent by the King of Saxony, sufficient to show that no modern red deer can compare with them in span, size, or number of well-developed points. For though I searched the whole collection I could find no modern stags head with more than eighteen or twenty really well-developed points, most of the best having fourteen to eighteen.
Chevalier Wessely gained the first prize for fallow deer with a head which measured 26·48 inches round the curve, and 22·04 inches in spread, with the palm 6·69 inches across There were many others: from Duke Gunther of Schleswig-Holstein, from the Duke of Ratibor and from the Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha; but perhaps the best that I noted was a head from Hacs in Hungary with sixteen points on one side and fourteen on the other. I was under the impression at the time that some of these heads were larger and heavier than our best park heads, but on com¬ paring the measurement of the first prize head mentioned with those given by Mr. Millais in British Deer and Their Horns I find that both in England, Scotland and Ireland fallow deer have existed which consider¬ ably exceed the German heads in length and spread. The record whose origin is known is from Drummond Castle, Perthshire, and measures 36 inches in length with a span of 37 inches. Millais gives 8 pounds 1 ounce as the weight of the best horns known to him (with skull, but without lower jaw), which came from Petworth Park.
Among the curiosities were a pure white roe, stuffed whole, and a chamois of a pale yellowish dun colour; and in the collection of chamois horns sent by Herr Paul Haberg was a most remarkable head, fawn colour striped with grey, and very wide-set horns. The record chamois
