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spotted deer with Ely's cartridges, (No. 4,) from the same gun, a 

 14 bore, out of which however I often on such occasions shot with 

 No. 13 wads and Ely's cartridges which, by doing away with the 

 windage, I fancied, made the weapon hit harder than it would 

 otherwise have done. 



The first deer, hit in the neck as, before it made up its mind to 

 rush into the open, it stood about twenty yards from me, fell on 

 the spot. The other was galloping past me at a distance of perhaps 

 thirty-five yards ; it also was shot in the neck, and rolled over 

 much as a hare under similar circumstances would, it got up again 

 however, and although it did not run far, it managed to get into 

 some thick brushwood and was not found until the following 

 morning. 



No- 60- Axis Porcinus. 



JKRDON, No. 222, PAGE 263 ; HOG DEER. 



I can corroborate Jerdon's statement, vide page 263 of his book, 

 that the young of this deer " are beautifully spotted," but although 

 I must have seen many adult specimens dead and alive and still 

 more of the skins, while I was in Burmah. I do not remember 

 having remarked the few white spots which he says, many of them 

 assume in summer. I think that the fawns lose their white spots 

 when they are about six months old. 



There is a very interesting hybrid between this deer and the 

 last, now (August 1868) in thePeople's Park at Madras : 



In 1865, I sent from Rangoon to Madras a pair of very fine hog- 

 deer, which were unfortunately sent to the paddock in the People's 

 Park, instead of, as I hoped, being set at perfect liberty to breed 

 in the Government Park at Guindy. The animal is not, I believe, 

 to be found anywhere in the Madras Presidency, and the experiment 

 would not only have been an interesting one to a naturalist but, 

 from the excellent cover Guindy Park affords, and its great extent, 

 one almost certain to have succeeded. I cannot find any authentic 

 proof that the hog-deer has ever been found in the Southern India. 

 At page 263 of his book, Dr. Jerdon writes as follows :-r-" It has 



