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

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