869 increasing* 58 a neavv blow the bodies of 48 dead stags having been found and including 1884 the Forest stags were, I believe, decreasing. and we think very successful count of 1889, confirms this. Up to hinds in February, the stags being in high ground, and the hinds 72 knobbers. increase of hornless animals, hinds, knobbers and calves, is so We believe the animals counted 1879, consisted of about what Spring 1890, we counted 1429 hornless animals in Forest. 47 stags died in 1882. I have no doubt whatever, that since 1884, when we received hornless animals. Was Husk the cause of the heavy mortality of 1884 and 1882 ? This is an increase of 560, or 64 per cent, on Forest in n years. Great increase time the stock appears to be about 100 larger than ever. The fallen nearly 100 below our starting point, 1878, at the present 218 calves. 1890 Count 957 hinds (counted separately). 1879 Count 579 hinds (i year old and more). since 1884. the stock of Forest stags has been steadily increasing, and that at large as to be easily noticed at a glance. Our two counts chiefly in low ground. the present time the increase has become larger yearly. Our careful, of Hinds and Spring 1879, we counted 869 hornless animals in Forest. is stated below, the 1879 count being only an unclassed census of At the worst period, 1884, the Forest stags appear to have