Jungle By- Ways in India 



in proportion to the length. They are not so 

 pointed as those of the chitul and are easily 

 recognizable. 



When at the trot or run, as is the case with the 

 chitul, the long scut is held erect or curving over 

 the back slightly, and this method of holding it 

 may be noticed amongst young sambhar when they 



The thick scuts of the sambhar does. 



are mincing along in the stilted walk they affect. 

 Usually very young stags, I have noticed, are 

 particularly addicted to this mode of progression. 



The scut is much broader than that of the 

 chitul, and has a flat broad end to it instead of the 

 long pointed end of long hairs found in the chitul. 



Burke (in the Indian Field Shikar book) gives as 

 his record, a head of 50^ inches, with a girth of 

 9 1 inches from Bhopal. Such heads do not exist 

 nowadays. The average length may be taken at 



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