HOG-DEER OR PARA 83 



Head of Male Hog-Deer. 



HOG-DEER or PARA (Cervus [Hyelaphus] porcinus). 



In the group typified by the hog-deer the antler-pedicles are long, 

 the bulla of the skull is large, and the pit for the face-gland much less 

 deep than in the sambar group, and the nasal bones are not expanded 

 superiorly, while the tail is shorter. In the Philippines the group 

 (Hyelaphus} is represented by the Philippine hog-deer C. calamienensis, 

 and by the species named C. culionensis. The Indian hog-deer is not 

 dissimilar to the Bavian deer, but the antlers are larger, the build longer 

 and lower, and the summer coat of the adult, as well as that of the 

 young, spotted with yellowish white. General colour in winter rufous or 

 yellowish brown, somewhat speckled above, and much darker beneath ; 

 in summer, upper-parts paler and more or less spotted. Antlers on 

 long pedicles, with the hinder tine of the terminal fork the shorter. 

 Height at shoulder from about 25 to 29 inches. Weight about 90 to 

 100 Ibs. Apparently the largest pair of antlers known belonged to a 

 specimen shot by Mr. A. O. Hume in the Ganges Khadir, near Meerut ; 

 these measured 20 inches along the beam inside, and had a mid-beam 

 girth of 3.5, but their outside measurement is unknown. 

 Distribution. India, throughout the Indo-Gangetic plain from Sind 



and the Punjab to Assam, thence through Sylhet to Burma and 



Tenasserim. 



