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galloping back quite close to us, so that my coolies thought of trying 
to catch it, but it soon made off after its mother, going at a great 
pace. An hour or two later, we saw what I believed to be the same 
herd, or part of it, at a distance of about 150 yards. They were then 
four in number and I did not notice the fawn, so possibly the mother 
and fawn were resting elsewhere. They were all does. On the 24th 
February 1907, a few miles north of Nawng Pla Duk station on the 
Southern Railway, in approximate Lat. 13° 55,’ Long. 99° 55,’ also in 
Ratburi Muang, I saw a female “ lamang.” 
These deer frequent grassy plains, and at that time considerable 
areas in the district last mentioned were covered with coarse grass 
from 6 to 10 feet high, which afforded excellent cover and shade, more 
especially as there was a fair proportion of trees growing in the 
grass jungle. I fancy that most of this area has since been brought 
under cultivation. It was being rapidly settled at that time. The 
district around Chawm Bung does not seem very suitable for these deer, 
as it is more or less closely covered with tree-jungle, and the grass in 
the glades is short and sparse in the dry season. These deer cannot 
live far from water. In recent years the plain of Chawm Bung itself 
has been largely brought under cultivation. Formerly it would have 
furnished an ideal haunt for these deer. There has also heen an 
enormous increase in the number of people who enter this district in 
the dry season for the purpose of cutting timber. This is taken out in 
bullock carts and used for building purposes, railway sleepers, fish traps 
in the gulf, &c. The wood-cutters do a certain amount of game 
shooting by sitting up over waterholes, and as the “lamang” cannot 
go long without water, or travel far in the hot season to get it, it 
seems to me probable that this deer may have been almost, if not quite, 
exterminated by now on the west side of the Meklawng River by this 
method of shooting. 
I was informed in the present year that, in the district of 
Choraké Sampan in the Province of Nakawn Chaisi, which is just north 
of Muang Kanburi, in Ratburi Province, the “ lamang” occasionally 
enter and feed on the rice crops during the wet season. 
I have heard it stated that no ‘“‘ lamang” are found west cf the 
Menam Chao Praya. From what I have stated this is evidently not so. 
Apart from that, these deer were found until recent years in patches of 
high grass-jungle between the railway and the river, north of Lopburi 
