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bluing to make as good a subject for brush or pencil as any artist 

 ueed wish for. 



I returned in the evening and had the satisfaction of seeing the 

 stag stealing, with all the precautions told by HAWKEYE, out of 

 the opposite side of the wood he entered in the morning. By 

 taking due advantage of the wind however and stalking with more 

 than ordinary patience, I managed to put a deadly bullet through 

 his brawny and well-maned neck which was only the part exposed 

 as he stood, among brushwood, long grass and rocks, sniffing the 

 breeze and listening to the distant shouting of some herdsmen in 

 the glen far beneath us. 



In opposition to the remarks at page 108, the following extract 

 from a letter by a far better sportsman in general and deer-stalker 

 in particular than the author of these notes and one often quoted in 

 them is given : 



" I don't agree with you when you state that the stag " roars" 

 and the hind " lows ; " you cannot call that deep bark of a snmbur 

 stag a " roar," on the sharper one of the hind a " low," much 

 less " a faint grunting low." 



It is always difficult to describe sound by words ; but in defence 

 of the word below, I can only bring forward HAWKEYE at page 86, 

 some of our old writers, and last not least, Scott, who says vide 

 " Marmion," Canto IV, verse xv. 



" The wild buck bells from ferny brake." 



No. 59, Page 109. Axis Maculatus. 

 Spotted Deer. 



This beautiful deer is too well known to require any description 

 from me. 



I do not think that there are two species of spotted deer, but, as 

 far as my experience goes, the horns of those from the south of 

 the Madras Presidency are more inclined to spread into extra times 

 and to be irregular in shape than those from the Northern Circars, 

 the Deccan or Central India although in these districts the deer 

 seem larger. The difference in size may be caused as the writer 

 tries to explain at page 109. That in horn jrnay perhaps be 



