i6 If, as is very likely, the Forest crop of calves, 1876, was half that of 1889, there would be, we calculate, rather above 500 hinds in the Forest in 1876, as against 957 in 1889. This is very probable, and our hind count, Spring of 1879, was 579 ; but some two-year-old stags were possibly included in this count owing to bad spying weather. Again, if the Forest crop of calves in 1876, alive Feb., was about half the present crop, the addition of two-year-old stags going into Forest count of 1878 should be about 67 (20% calves dying, 5% knobbers.) This would prevent any startling change in the number for 1879, and our percentage of deaths in stags was not heavy for the first 3 years (1878, 1879, 1880), perhaps 4 per cent., 1880 list is lost. We think we had 525 stags in the Forest late July, 1878, but we did not count them so far as I can remember. We think, from memory, the count for 1880 was about 500, but it is lost. We also think Forest count for 1879 was near 5j it i s a ^ so l st> The rate of increase in stags reared from 1876 to 1889, inclu- sive, may have probably been something of this kind, but of course less regular. I have put it in to illustrate the principle that governs our calculations the rock on which they are built. YEAR. 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880