+------------+---------+-------------------+----------+----------------+ | | | Width. | | | | Locality. | Length. +---------+---------+ Circum- | Authority. | | | | Tips. | Inside. | ference. | | +------------+---------+---------+---------+----------+----------------+ | | ins. | ins. | ins. | ins. | | | Moréna | 33-1/2 | ... | ... | ... | Marq. Mérito | | | | | | | (p. 158).| | Pyrenees | 31 | 26-1/2 | ... | 8-3/4 | Sir V. Brooke. | | Neváda | 29-3/4 | 22-1/4 | 20-7/8 | 8-1/4 | At Madrid. | | Grédos[26] | 29-1/4 | 23-1/4 | ... | 9-1/2 | Authors. | | Do. | 29-1/8 | 23-1/8 | 21 | 9-7/8 | M. Amezúa. | | Do. | 29 | 22-1/2 | ... | 9-1/4 | Authors. | | Pyrenees | 29 | 23 | ... | 10 | Sir V. Brooke. | | Neváda[26] | 29 | 23 | 18-3/4 | 9 | Authors. | | Do. | 28-1/4 | 24-1/2 | 22 | 9-1/16 | Do. | | Moréna | 28-1/2 | ... | ... | 8-1/4 | Do. | | Bermeja | 28 | 19 | ... | 8-1/4 | Do. | | Moréna | 26-3/4 | ... | ... | ... | Lord Hindlip. | | Grédos | 26-1/2 | ... | 22-1/8 | 10-1/8 | At Madrid. | | Pyrenees | 26 | 21 | ... | 10 | Sir V. Brooke. | | Sa. Blanca | 26 | ... | ... | 8-3/4 | P. Larios. | | Grédos | 24-1/8 | ... | ... | 8-1/4 | Authors. | | Pyrenees | 22-3/4 | 18-3/4 | ... | 9-1/2 | E. N. Buxton. | | Sa. Blanca | 22 | ... | 14 | 7-3/4 | P. Larios. | | Valencia | 21-3/4 | 16-3/8 | 17 | 7-7/8 | P. Burgoyne. | +------------+---------+---------+---------+----------+----------------+ CHAPTER XV SIERRA MORÉNA (_Continued_) RED DEER AND BOAR The mountain deer of the Sierra Moréna are the grandest of their kind in Spain, and will compare favourably with any truly wild deer in Europe.[27] The drawings, photographs, and measurements given in this chapter prove so much, but no mere numerals convey an adequate conception of these magnificent harts, as seen in the full glory of life bounding in unequal leaps over some rocky pass, or picking more deliberate course up a stone stairway. Massive as they are in body (weighing, say, 300 lbs. clean), yet even so the giant antlers appear almost disproportionate in length and superstructure. The whole Sierra Moréna being clad with brushwood and jungle, thicker in places, but nowhere clear, shooting is practically confined to "driving" on that extensive scale termed, in Spanish phrase, _montería_.