The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . horter andstraighter ; the antlers are shorter and lighter, andgrow a larger number of points in proportion totheir length and weight. The other type is aheavier built, greyer animal, with stronger, longerlimbs ; the head is longer, and there is a slightcurve in the nose ; the horns of this grey type aregenerally longer, though the number of points maybe few in comparison. This animal is believedto be of Eastern origin. The two tvpes are easilydistinguished side by side in those spurs of theCarpathians which mark the b
The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . horter andstraighter ; the antlers are shorter and lighter, andgrow a larger number of points in proportion totheir length and weight. The other type is aheavier built, greyer animal, with stronger, longerlimbs ; the head is longer, and there is a slightcurve in the nose ; the horns of this grey type aregenerally longer, though the number of points maybe few in comparison. This animal is believedto be of Eastern origin. The two tvpes are easilydistinguished side by side in those spurs of theCarpathians which mark the boundaries of Galiciaand Bukowina, and my personal opinion is thatthe grey type is a kind of transition form betweenthe European red deer and the larger deer of theCaspian and Caucasus countries. Hungarian deer run very heavy. The weight ofa gralloched stag at the beginning of the ruttingseason has been recorded at considerably over650 Hi., but this is somewhat exceptional, and any-thing over 500 lb. may be regarded as very (me. The conditions, then, to summarise what has. gone before,under which Hun-garian proprietorscontrive to pro-duce record headsin their encloseddeer parks, are asfollow :— 1. Good, strong,and healthystock to workon. 2. The imme-diate proximity ofgood open deercountry, fromwhich old stagsnow and then findtheir way to thehinds. 3. As great a range of country as possible. 4. Abundance of nourishing pasture and otherfood. 5. Plenty of arable land within the enclosedestate. 6. Judiciously keeping down the numbers. 1 have thought it more likely to interest Eng-lish readers if I enumerated some of the con-siderations particularly affecting the recognisedsuperiority of the Hungarian stag than had Imerely recounted personal adventures, with which,no doubt, the present work will be abundantlysupplied from readier pens than mine. GEZA COUNT SZECHENYI A SNAP-SHOT. (Photo : G. D. Wharton.)
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