. Records of stag-hunting on Exmoor. s constitute what are called in theWest a stags rights, a term about which mistakesare frequently made. Thus a stag with all his rightsand three on top both horns means a stag withtwelve points; what is called in Scotland a royal head,though the term is unknown in the west. Brow, trey,uprights, indicates a stag of six points. Of the rights, the brow antler is generally thelongest and the bay the shortest. The trey is fre-quently as long as the brow, sometimes longer, butgenerally somewhat shorter. It is not common for thebay to be longer than the brow, but
. Records of stag-hunting on Exmoor. s constitute what are called in theWest a stags rights, a term about which mistakesare frequently made. Thus a stag with all his rightsand three on top both horns means a stag withtwelve points; what is called in Scotland a royal head,though the term is unknown in the west. Brow, trey,uprights, indicates a stag of six points. Of the rights, the brow antler is generally thelongest and the bay the shortest. The trey is fre-quently as long as the brow, sometimes longer, butgenerally somewhat shorter. It is not common for thebay to be longer than the brow, but cases are not un-known. It may be noticed that in the Bara-singh deerof Kashmir the bay is almost invariably longer thanthe brow, and takes its place as the main fightingantler. The old west country theory of the growth of thehorns is as follows. Until he is one year old the maledeer has no horns. In his second year he has a knobof bones, about two inches in height, thrown out oneach side of the head ; at the age of three a spire or.
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