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dark brown, often mottled with gray or light brown spots. This 

 deer is constantly being hunted and is slowly disappearing from 

 many of the places where it was at one time common. It pre- 

 fers mountain forests and is found in the Himalayas, Tibet, 

 western China, Siberia, Manchuria, Korea, and Sakhalin. 



Cheveotains or Mouse-deer. Family Tragulid^e 



This family contains the chevrotains or mouse-deer of 

 southern Asia and the water chevrotains of West Africa. They 

 look like small antlerless deer. The males possess canine teeth. 

 In some structures of their skulls and teeth they resemble the 

 camels. 



The Mouse-deer or Chevrotain (Tragulus), standing less 

 than a foot high at the shoulders, is the smallest of the Asiatic 

 hoofed animals. When seen running through the brush it re- 

 minds one of a rabbit. In fact, its external appearance and 

 shape are much like those of a long-legged rodent, such as an 

 agouti of South America. The name mouse-deer is misleading, 

 for this animal is not closely related to the deer. The range ex- 

 tends throughout southeastern Asia to adjoining islands. Nu- 

 merous forms have been described, all of which fall into two 

 species, the larger mouse-deer (Tragulus javanicus) found on 

 almost all of the Greater Sunda group of islands, and the smaller 

 mouse-deer (Tragulus kanchil) found on Sumatra and some of 

 its associated islands. 



Pigs. Family Suid^ 



Even the less familiar members of this family may be rec- 

 ognized by the elongated head and snout and the tusks which 

 grow from both the upper and lower jaws. These tusks grow 

 throughout life, those from the upper jaw curving upward. 

 The hair is coarse and bristly, the tail generally fairly long and 

 tufted on the end. 



The Wild Pigs (Sus) have the greatest range of any of the 

 larger mammals of the islands. Domestic pigs, taken from is- 



