was always higher than in this part of the country, but when we look at the calves discovered are 10 per cent. The dead stags were mostly disappear very quickly, leaving, for a time, only a gruesome last season, there was not one dead deer seen on our place this Spring. I (Signed) HUGH Ross. very severely. not apply to Dibidale. Only a small proportion of the Dibidale stags are likely to exceed 6 years of age. The district is shot pasture on the west coast and in the Islands, it is very different from ours. But poverty and old age are the chief causes of death amongst deer that come am quite aware the death rate amongst deer on the west coast of Ross-shire these dead animals, if careful search was not made. The bodies rubbish. It would be quite easy to overlook nearly the whole of The Jura death rate for 1890 also proves to be quite moderate. and often not willingly acknowledged. The last remark does island forest, so I must be quiet. under my notice in this quarter. places, so far as I know, they are neither sought after nor recorded, There is off and on about 600 head of deer on this place of all kinds to- It is 2 per cent, for stags and for hinds 2\ per cent. Dead The grass, etc., may have a good deal to do with it. But I never was in an carpet of hair, consequently the search must be made at the right search for dead deer is strenuous and diligent, whereas in other must be borne in mind, and we must also remember that our The observations made in the second paragraph of this paper a few feeds of the young grass. This is generally called green braxey. day, of which 300 are stags, and unless a beast that was wounded and not got