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runs just as surely as have pigs and hares, 

 and, knowing exactly where those runs are, 

 post themselves accordingly. There would 

 seem to be little doubt but that the 

 thoroughly organized beat by a party of 

 unjealous, fatigue-enduring foreign sports- 

 men, who followed implicitly the instruc- 

 tions of the indispensable shikari, would 

 meet with some of the success it deserves. 

 But it would have to be undertaken by a 

 new generation of sportsmen unspoiled by 

 the sybaritic luxuries which the present day 

 gunner appears to regard as absolute 

 necessities. 



The Kopsch deer is a fairly large 

 animal as may be inferred from measure- 

 ments of a specimen in the Shanghai 

 Museum : — There are at least four varieties 

 of muntjacs, or small antlered deer, but the 

 number shot in a decade might easily be 

 counted on one's fingers. 



There is the crying muntjac (Cervulus 

 lacrymans ) by no means rare on the steep 

 well wooded Chekiang hillsides. It is a 

 diminutive animal weighing a little more 

 than the average hare, and rarely conde- 

 scends to the plains. Still at Kashing, only 



