RECORDS OF BIG GAME 



Head of Male Hog-Deer. 



HOG-DEER or PAEA (Cervus porcinus). 



Allied to the Bavian deer, but the antlers larger, the build longer 

 and lower, and the summer coat of the adult, as well as that of the 

 young, spotted with yellowish white. General colour in winter rufous or 

 yellowish brown, somewhat speckled above, and much darker beneath ; 

 in summer, upper-parts paler and more or less spotted. Antlers on 

 long pedicles, with the hinder tine of the terminal fork the shorter. 

 Height at shoulder from about 25 to 29 inches. Weight about 90 to 

 100 Ibs. The largest pair of antlers known belonged to a specimen 

 shot by Mr. A. O. Hume in the Ganges Khadir, near Meerut They 

 measured 20 along the beam inside, and had a mid-beam girth of 3.5. 

 The specimen was destroyed in the Mutiny, the house in which it was 

 hung having been burnt. 

 Distribution. India, throughout the Indo-Gangetic plain from Sind 



and the Punjab to Assam, thence through Sylhet to Burma and 



Tenasserim. 



Length on Circum- 

 outside ference above Tip to Tip. 

 curve. brow-tine. 



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Locality. Owner. 



[2* Burma .... Capt. G. H. Evans. 



7i Do Do. 



12\ ? Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. 



