Jungle By -Ways in India 



by themselves, the large herds consisting entirely 

 of old and young does and immature stags. 



As I sat an interested spectator of this great 

 herd, which numbered some fifty individuals, 

 and there may have been more, a sudden sharp 

 note came into the squeak of one of the does. 

 The old stag threw up his noble head in sharp 



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Herd of Barasingha leaving the forest to graze. 



annoyance, and if ever a stag swore deeply the 

 patriarch not 40 yards from me did so.- Here 

 he was, in a beautiful secluded forest-encircled 

 green nook, just commencing his evening meal 

 on his favourite sweet-scented pasture, and those 

 pestilent females persisted in sounding the note of 

 alarm. ' What can they mean ? ' he muttered, as 

 other does caught up and gave out the alarm 

 signal. Some of the does began edging off towards 

 the forest; one or two of the smaller stags ex- 

 hibited evident signs of uneasiness ! The great stag 



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