Jungle By-Ways in India 



He is at times a most frightfully annoying little 

 beggar in this way, for he wakes up the whole 

 jungle by this irritating bark of his, and puts every- 

 thing on the qui vive. 



The kakar is a small reddish chestnut-coloured 

 deer, low in the fore-quarters and standing only 

 some 23 inches at the shoulder and 3 feet in 

 length, and is thus, with one exception, the 

 smallest of the deer tribe in India. The males 

 weigh 40 Ibs. only. Owing to his small size he 

 moves very quietly through the jungle, and one 

 often meets him almost face to face without having 

 heard a sound of his approach. 



This little deer has the widest range of any 

 throughout the country, being common through- 

 out India and Burma and ranging up into the 

 Himalaya to an elevation of some 7000 feet. 



He affords but poor sport, and with the exercise 

 of a little trouble and patience can be easily stalked 

 and killed. He is probably most often shot for 

 food, as his venison is by no means bad and often 

 affords a very welcome variety to the ordinary 

 camp fare. 



The barking deer's most striking peculiarity is 

 situated in his horns. Above the eye a curious, 

 erect, bony excrescence, or pedicel, covered with 

 hair and some 3 or 4 inches in length, stands up 

 and on this is situated the horn proper, which is 

 forked and may be another 4-5 inches long. The 

 record length is some 9 inches only, furry portion 



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