The destruction of stags from all causes, including knobbers, Loss of Stags may be perhaps 3 cromies to 100 stags, or rather more, for we first 7 years, viz. : 1878 to 1884 inclusive, as nearly as we can Pessimistic foretell the downfall of the Forest by over shooting about less now, say 15 stags a year less, for 6 years past, and also years. apparently, and perhaps also in 1884 and 1885. nated. Cromie stags are very curious ; it is said they exist remarkable. Some cromie heads are beautiful. We have not of Lochbuie thinks not. Cromie in Gaelic means crooked. doubt has aroused a prophetic spirit in some individuals, who These Cromie horns slope backwards, and are altogether very calculate, 105 stags a year. This, had it continued, would have the production is increased considerably. This destruction no shot cromies for several years, and perhaps it is argued that for the whole ground (Ardfin, Forest, and Tarbert) was, for the in early years, only in Jura, where certainly they are historical. I have heard shown 1,260 stags wiped out in 12 years. The destruction is L . , it stated that they have been known in Mull, but Maclaine those existing ; they are not very easy to recognize at any consider- Cromies. able distance. We have found 3 dead cromies, none of which Jura prophets, g vears hence, and also say that cromies are extermi- only affect certain parts of the ground ; on those districts there we do not think we can count all the live ones ; however we may sometimes count the same stags twice over as in 1881 know of about 8 cromies, and it is not likely we know of half absence from the larder proves absence from the hill. Cromies 22