50 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Chital or Chitra ; Spotted Deer. 



Typical locality the plains of Peninsular India, to which 

 country and Ceylon the species is restricted. 



Size medium, the shoulder-height ranging from ahout 

 36 to 38 inches ; build light and slender, with the legs long ; 



Fig. 14.— Skull and Antlers op Chital (Cervus [Axis] axis). 



general colour bright rufous fawn, spotted all over the body 

 with white at all seasons ; a dark stripe from the nape to the 

 extremity of the tail, bordered along the back by one or two 

 rows of white spots ; the spots low down on the flanks some- 

 times blending into a line; chin, upper portion of throat, 



