388. JOURNAL, NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY OF ‘SIAM. Vol. 1. 
but which is probably Bos sonduicus 
At present, two Cervidae only are known from this district, the 
Barking Deer (Cervulus muntjac ) and the Sambar (Cervus unicolor ). 
It is worthy of note that Ihave not yet found a young Barking Deer 
with spots, though Blanford states that the young are spotted. It is 
more generally distributed than the Sambar in this area and stays on 
in the drier jungle, which the Sambar forsakes in the hot season; and 
I also heard it calling one wet gusty night when camped on the 
watershed in the height of the monsoon at an elevation of 1000 
metres. - The rutting season is apparently January-February, but 
is not well defined if the gestatory periol of 6 months given by 
Blanford is correct ; for on the 12th February I obtained a young 
Barking Deer less than 2 weeks old, found in its form at an elevation 
of 440 metres on a hill side and still rather unsteady on its legs; 
and also, on the 28th March, my coolie shot a female with well 
developed foetus, and on the 29th March obtained a female in milk. 
It is reasonable to suppose that the young should be born when 
there is plenty of tender herbage, rather than in the hot months when 
the female would have to travel considerable distance to and from 
water in the drier areas; and the fact that some young are dropped 
in the wet months appears to be recognised by native hunters, for 1 
well remember in Pachin, in the latter part of September, carefully 
stalking a native hunter who was imitating the bleat of a young Bark- 
ing Deer. 
From this district I have only one skin of a young Sambar 
about one-third grown, anl this has a few indistinct spots on either 
flank. I also, on the 1st January, in Lat. 14° 10’ N., saw the skin of a 
young Sambar pegged out to dry and this also showed indistinct flank 
spots, the general colour of the “ skin” being a soft smoky fawn with 
avery dark back line. Thus, presumably, the form of Sambar found 
here belongs to the Malayan variety, C. wnicolor equiivus. 
Blantord is probably correct in stating that Sambar horns of 
more than 35 in. long are seldom if ever obtained out of India. The 
heaviest horn of which I have any record measured 30.4 in. The cir- 
cumference below the brow tine was 8.6 in. and above that tine 7 in. 
and above the 2nd or bey tine 5 in, This single horn wa; purchased 
by an official for 12 ticals, its enhanced value being due to a small 
swelling which the vendor asserted was still growing ; and the belief is 
