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may be caused by the long canine teeth. He killed last year near 

 Ootacamund a muntjac which had a complete soft and a complete 

 hard horn. The testis had probably been injured on the side on 

 which the horn had not been cast. 



No. 62, Page 121. Memimna Indica. 

 The Mouse Deer. 



Jerdon's description of this curious little animal is as follows : 



" Above olivaceous mixed with yellow grey ; white below ; 



sides of the body with yellowish white lines formed of interrupted 



spots, the upper rows of which are joined to those of the opposite 



side by some transverse spots ; ears reddish-brown. 



Length of body about 22 to 23 inches ; tail \\ ; height 10 to 12 

 inches ; weight 5 to 6 Ibs. 



The color of this mouse deer varies somewhat in different 

 localities. 



The Indian mouse-deer is found in all the large forests of India 

 from the extreme south to the foot of the Himalayas, but it does 

 not occur at any great elevation, and I have rarely seen it from 

 higher altitude than about 2,000 feet. It is much more abundant 

 in the South of India than towards the north, and is certainly rare 

 in the Himalayan Terai." 



No. 67, Page 1 34. Antilope Bezoartica. 

 Indian Antelope. 



At page 276 of his book, Jerdon remarks that he has seen several 

 pairs of black buck horns, 26 inches long, and heard of others 27, 

 and, that, one pair mentioned by Mr. Elliot were 24 inches long 

 with five flexures and fifty rings, I do not understand how these 

 flexures should be counted, or rather where one is supposed to end 

 and the next to commence, but, since my notes on the Indian 

 antelope were written, I have (Bombay, 20th March 1869), seen 

 in the possession of the Honorable Barrow Ellis, a pair of black 

 buck horns in length and number of rings, although not in number 



of flexures exceeding those mentioned by Messrs. Elliot and 



Jerdon. 



