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larger with a deep brown body, yellow 

 brown head, and a large tuft on the crown, 

 (whence its name) which conceals two very 

 short horns. 



Michie's Muntjac (Elaphodns Michianus) 

 of a deep ground colour all over, except 

 white belly, white tips to the ears and pale 

 lines over the eyes. This species also has a 

 large tuft concealing very small horns. 



But the deer too well known to sportsmen, 

 generally and most ignorantly spoken of as 

 the hog deer, a name applicable only to the 

 Indian species with small antlers, is the 

 hornless river deer (Hydropotes Inermis). 

 This animal possesses none of the character- 

 istics of the ubiquitous deer except the gift 

 of speed. The senses of hearing, sight and 

 smell are by no means accutely developed, 

 or the gunner would never obtain the 

 number of close easy shots he gets at these 

 animals. Again they differ from deer gener- 

 ally in as much as they are prolifically 

 parturient, often giving birth to five young 

 at a time, while the foetus of an ordinary 

 sized doe has been found to contain as many 

 as seven embryos ; while another marked 

 point of dift"erence is the coarse, almost 



