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river down to the Sunderbands of Bengal. It is also known in 

 the Central Provinces near Mundla and along the tributaries of 

 the Nerbudda. 



Kinloch says that it used to be found on the islands in the 

 Indus, but is now almost extinct there. By all accounts it 

 seems to prefer the neighbourhood of Sal forest. 



The antlers of the sw^amp deer are peculiar. The beam is 

 rather slender, the brow antler very long, there is no median 

 tine, and at the top the. head becomes almost palmated. The 



Rucervus Duvaucelli 



full-grown stag carries three antlers on the top, two of which 

 (the outside antlers generally) are bifurcated equally, as if the 

 antler had been split and bent outwards ; each horn having 

 thus six points, including the brow antler. Colonel Erskine 

 says that he has never seen a head with more than fourteen 

 tines, but Jerdon speaks of seventeen. In Schomburgk's deer 

 (an allied form found in Siam), all three prongs on the top are 

 bifurcated. The difference between the two varieties is very 

 noticeable in the British Museum, where the horns are placed 



