The Swamp-Deer, or Barasingha 



fusion it seems better to employ an English name, 

 using barasingha merely as an alternative title — and as 

 the name swamp-deer, although not free from objection, 

 is in general use, it seems the most convenient. 



With the exception that it retains in most instances 

 a line of whitish spots on each side of the dark dorsal 



Fig. 45. — Swamp-Deer Stag, with the antlers in velvet, photographed by the 

 Duchess of Bedford. 



streak, the swamp-deer is as uniformly coloured as the 

 sambar, and, like that species, exhibits no marked 

 seasonal change in the colour. Indeed this feature 

 appears to be common to all deer of the rusine and 

 rucervine groups ; the latter (rucervine) being the 

 one to which the present species and two other allied 



Oriental deer belong. 



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