SIR STAMFORD RAFFLE'S STORIES 



a tree when hotly pursued by an enemy. The actual 

 founder of the Zoological Society, whose bust adorns the 

 Lion house, was told, and has told us, that a kanchil will 

 neatly leap into a tree when fugitive and remain there 

 in a state of suspense by its long canines. All we can 

 say is, there are the teeth and here is the story. The 

 tusks, it should be added, are an attribute of the male. 

 The only living ally of the Tragulus is the African 

 Hyomoschus, a shorter limbed but small deerlet, which 

 is also of a brown colour with spots and stripes. One 

 species of kanchil, Tragulus stanleyanus, recalls the 

 memory of one of the early Presidents of the Zoological 

 Society, the Earl of Derby, whose menagerie at Knowsley 

 was sold in the early fifties, and the inhabitants largely 

 drafted off to our Zoo. 



THE REINDEER 



The reindeer, Rangifer tarandus, is unique among 

 the deer tribe by reason of the fact that both sexes 

 bear horns. In other deer, as is well known, the 

 stags alone are horned, the does being hornless. The 

 reindeer, like the elk or moose, is circumpolar ; and 

 also like that animal, the American have been dis- 

 tinguished from the Northern European and Asiatic 

 forms. More than this indeed ; according to the most 

 recent estimate of likenesses and unlikenesses nine 

 distinct species of reindeer are allowed to the American 

 continent and adjacent regions including Greenland. 

 With the splitting of species we have nothing to do 

 here save recording that it is mainly American in its 

 inception, but has been eagerly followed in this 

 country by some whose knowledge of animal life is 

 limited to an acquaintance with the dead skin and the 

 dried skull. In Europe the reindeer is not merely 

 " game " ; it is used by the inhabitants of Scandinavia, 

 and has been from times of antiquity, as a beast of 



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