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handsome deer. It seems to love water and open country. McMaster 
states that it is found in the Golcondah Zemindary near Daraconda. 
DESCRIPTION.—Smaller and lighter than the sambar. Colour rich 
light yellow or chestnut in summer, yellowish-brown in winter, some- 
times very light, paler below and inside the limbs, white under the tail. 
The females are lighter ; the young spotted. 
Size.—Height, about 44 to 46 inches; horns, about 36 inches. 
They have commonly from twelve to fourteen points, but Jerdon states. 
he has seen them with seventeen. 
Like the spotted deer this species is gregarious ; one writer, speaking 
of them in Central India, says: ‘‘ The plain stretched away in gentle 
undulations towards the river, distant about a mile, and on it were three 
large herds of bara singhas feeding at one time; the nearest was not 
more than five hundred yards away from where I stood. There must 
have been at least fifty of them—stags, hinds, and fawns, feeding 
together in a lump, and outside the herd grazed three most enormous 
stags” (‘ Indian Sporting Review,’ quoted by Jerdon). 
No. 475. RUCERVUS zveZ PANOLIA ELDII. 
The Brow Antlered or Eld’s Deer. 
NativE Names.—TZhamin, in Burmah; Suagrat or Sungnaie, im 
Munipur, Eastern Himalayas, Terai, Munipur, Burmah, Siam, and 
the Malay peninsula. 
DescriPpTion.—In body similar to the last, but with much difference 
in the horns, the tres-tine being greatly developed at the expense of the 
royal, which gives the antlers a forward cast; the brow-tine is also 
very long. In summer it is a light rufous brown, with a few faint 
indications of white spots; the under-parts and insides of ears nearly 
white ; the tail short and black above. It is said to become darker in 
winter instead of lighter as in the last species. 
S1zE.—Height from 12 to 13 hands. 
This deer, which is identical with Cervus frontalis and Hodgson’s 
Cervus .dimorpha, and which was discovered in 1838 by Captain Eld, 
has been well described by Lieutenant R. C. Beavan. The following 
extracts have been quoted by Professor Garrod; the full account will be 
found in the ‘Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.’ The food of 
this species seems to consist of grass and wild paddy. “In habits they 
are very wary and difficult of approach, especially the males. They 
are also very timid and easily startled. The males, however, when 
wounded and brought to bay with dogs, get very savage, and charge 
vigorously. On being disturbed they invariably make for the open 
instead of resorting to the heavy jungle, like hog deer and sambar. In 
fact the thamyn is essentially a plain-loving species; and although it 
