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for knobbers ( manv wa sters being shot), was about 105 per year. For the last six years the destruction has been far less and the. number bred much greater. Il: is P rODable that during 1875-6-7 the late laird built up an accumulation of stags which enabled the ground to sustain the demands made upon it, until, of late years, the supply of new stags coming in, exceeds the demand. It seems to me that the ground was shot rather severely for a few years preceding 1875. It should be noticed that the number of valuable fresh stags shot since the close of 1877 has not exceeded by so much as a dozen yearly those which the laird was killing for a few years up to Fresh Stags 1875. We have shot almost precisely our nominal limit of 60 shott fresh stags a year. In 1878 we think Forest held 525 stags, among them a Two counts of large supply of faded stags. In 1889 we think Forest held 581 ^| ag e s arsa art stags (count 534) and little faded material. We shot Forest rather severely for the first few years, but we took off a great deal of faded material ; so it is certain that Forest gives a promise of better things to come, and that very soon. The extreme variations of our nine recorded counts of stags in Variations in Forest is 208. We know that one count was too high and that SJjJ* 11 f another was too low. The extreme variation of our 12 estimates is 152 (1889 is 581 1884 is 429). The extreme variation in Forest stags' deaths is 41 (47 dead 1881 6 dead 1887). The extreme variation in Forest hinds' deaths is 44 (55 dead 1881 ii dead 1887). We have added one more to every 10 dead hinds found ; their bodies are less certain to be found than stags.

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