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have no idea of breaking these laws, they could be enforced with- 

 out hardship to any one or any temptation to crime. 



The rules need be very simple ; merely to prevent any one sell- 

 ing game, dead or alive, without a license, or at all, or killing or 

 snaring it during certain close or breeding months, which would 

 of course vary slightly in different districts, and which should 

 therefore be fixed by local authorities. We have at home fixed 

 dates for killing certain kinds of game ; it would be very easy to 

 do the same in India. 



All guns should of course be taxed, and so should dogs of every 

 kind. The common and nearly ownerless dogs of the country are 

 so great a nuisance that each year rewards of, I think, two annas, 

 or three pence for every dog, and three annas for every bitch are 

 paid for their destruction. There cannot be any good reason why 

 dogs should not add to instead of taking from the public purse. 



Laws should be strictly enforced, that no one, head of a family 

 or school boy, black or white should, be allowed to fire at game 

 bird, or beast without a license. 



No- 61- Cervulus Aureus or Muntjac- 



JERDON, No. 223, PAGE 264 ; RIB-FACED on BARKING DEER. 



I can corroborate Jerdon's description of this animal, when he 

 says at page 265, that " It carries its head and neck low, and as its 

 " hind-quarters are high, its action in running is peculiar and not 

 " very elegant, somewhat resembling the pace of a sheep, hence its 

 " popular but very erroneous name in Southern India," or as he 

 terms it elsewhere, " Jungli-bakra, vulgo of Mussulmans of 

 " Southern India, hence the name of jungle sheep in the Madras 

 " presidency." 



I fancy that the Teloogoo name, " Kukagori" mentioned by 

 Jerdon at page 264, is however derived from its barking call and 

 red color which somewhat resembles the hue of most of the common 

 pariah dogs of India. 



Until it is decided that the barking deer of India is distinct from 

 the muntjac of Java, why give them different names ? Messrs* 



