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Besides the deer described, there are others such 

 as the Mouse Deer (Memimna indica), a diminutive 

 creature found in the Tenasserim Provinces, but I 

 never saw it in Pegu proper. The Serow (Nemor- 

 hcedus rutrida) is found also in the hill ranges. One 

 was shot near the Duke of York's Nose, a mountain 

 up the Salween, and one was caught swimming the 

 Sittang river near Shoay-ghein. This beast, or a very 

 closely-allied species, is also found in the hill ranges, 

 not very far from Gowhatty. Wild pigs are plentiful 

 in Burma, but no one has succeeded in spearing them 

 in the lower province, but near Pagan Myo, where 

 the ruins of thousands of pagodas are, I have seen 

 them in ridable ground. In Assam, below Doobree, 

 they lie out in the open, and I have put up a tiger 

 within fifty paces of a sounder. In the " churs," 

 capital pig-sticking can be had as described elsewhere, 

 but whilst chasing a boar you run a chance of being 

 chased by a tiger. In fact a few years ago, a party 

 of hunters thus met a tiger face to face and had to 

 beat a retreat. Wild dogs are plentiful in both 

 Burma and Assam, but they are very inferior in 

 appearance to the noble wild dog of the Neilgherry 

 range. Jackals do not exist in Lower Burma, but I 

 have heard them near the frontier, and the late Capt. 

 Bosworth shot one near Meaday. Once or twice I 

 think I saw them near Namyan. In Assam they 

 are simply in thousands. At times the jackal utters a 

 peculiar cry, called the pheeal, which is only a cry of 

 fear given utterance to, when disturbed by a tiger or 

 a leopard. In Assam we have the " hispid " hare, 

 the pigmy hog a fine specimen of which I shot near 



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