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weight from 25 lbs. to 30 lbs. Colonel Kinloch says it does not 

 stand more than 20 ins., Jerdon 22 or 23 ins. 



In Garwhal and Kumaon musk deer appear to be bigger 

 and heavier than in Cashmere. 



XXX. BARKING, OR RIB-FACED DEER ^ 



[Cei-vultis Aureus, vel Muntjac) \ 



* Kakur,' generally throughout the Himalayas ; ^ Ratwa,^ in A'epal and \ 

 neighbouring states ; ^/ungli Bukra,^ in Central Provinces ; '•Munt- | 

 jac,'' Sundanese | 



This deerlet is found pretty generally throughout India, | 

 Burmah, Ceylon and the Malay Peninsula, wherever there ar 

 fairly high hills covered with forest. Thick cover and plent 

 of water seem essential to it. 



Kakur are not gregarious ; they are generally found in 

 pairs, each pair seeming to keep pretty much to its own 

 particular ravine or patch of jungle. They will often live clos< 

 to villages, and feed on the crops at the edge of the jungle 

 they rarely venture far into the open, and invariably live clos< 

 to water. Their general colour is a bright golden bay, will 

 the lower parts, white ; the tail is rather long, and as the dee; 

 when galloping carries his head low and cocks his tail up, he 

 forcibly reminds one of an old buck rabbit. The buck has 1 

 horns about five inches long, set on bony pedicles about j 



three inches high, which are covered with longish hair. In S 

 good specimens there is a small brow antler of about one inch | 

 in length, and the tips of the horns should be curved back I 

 enough to permit of the head being suspended from a cord by \ 

 the hooks. The V-shaped creases on the face, from which it \ 

 derives its name of rib-faced, are dark brown, and there is a ij 

 dark line up the front of each pedicle. The horns appear to | 

 be shed annually. The buck has a pair of sharp stout tushes fi 

 in the upper jaw, of which he can make very good use. Ward(; 

 laments the loss of a valuable terrier which was killed by a^'i 

 wounded buck, so that it is advisable to be careful in handling il 



