Game Animals of India, etc. 



some individuals, as in the buck shown in fig. 43, the 

 entire body is thus dappled ; but in other instances the 

 spotting may be restricted to a couple of rows on each 

 side of the dark streak on the back. The ears, which 

 are well covered with hair on the outer surface, and are 

 white internally, are rather lar2;e ; and the tail, of which 



Fig. 42. — Head of Hose-Deer Stag, from a specimen in the possession of 

 Mr. H. C. V. Hunter. 



the lower surface is white, is proportionately long ; the 

 throat is devoid of mane ; the face-glands are less 

 developed than in the sambar ; and the colour of the 

 tufts of hair on the metatarsal Mands is lighter than 

 that of the rest of the leg. Antlers measuring 23^ and 

 2i| inches in length have been recorded, the longer 

 pair having a basal girth of 3^ inches. 



Unlike sambar, which dwell in hill -forest, para 

 inhabit river-flats, where they prefer tracts with grass of 



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