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marshy ground. The fawns arc born in May ; and, as a rule, but one is 

 produced at a birth. 



With regard to the call of the old stags another quotation may be 

 made from the letter referred to in connection with the antler-change : — 



" The Pere David's roar is difficult to describe, but is much more like 

 the bray of a donkey than the call of an ordinary deer. It you can 

 imagine the donkey without the ' up-and-down ' ot the ' he-haw ' and the 

 lower note given out more as a grunt, that is the nearest approach to a 

 description." 



THE CHINESE WATER-DEER 



( Hydrc la pints i lie r mis) 

 (Plate V. Fig. 2) 



This pretty little species is one of the smallest representatives of the 

 deer family, and one of the few in which the males are unprovided with 

 antlers ; the offensive weapons in that sex taking the form ot long sabre- 

 like tusks in the upper jaw, very similar to those of the male musk-deer. 

 Nevertheless, as shown by its internal anatomy, the Chinese water-deer 

 has no near relationship with the musk, its resemblances to which are due 

 to what it is now the fashion to call parallelism in development. In all 

 its important structural features this species agrees with the more typical 

 deer. 



Twenty inches at the shoulder is about the height of the Chinese water- 

 deer. The colour of the coarse and thick coat is uniformly foxy red, 

 stippled with black at all seasons of the year, the limbs being devoid ot 

 the black stippling. The chin, upper lip, a ring round each eye, the 

 inner surface of the ears, and the under -parts and inner sides ot the 

 buttocks are alone greyish white. The ears are of moderate size and 



