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darker and without the red tinge that pervades 

 our red deer at home. He has at some seasons a 

 coarse sort of mane on his neck, and round his 

 throat, which is often erected when the animal is 

 excited by pain, or from other causes. He has 

 three points on each horn, and a good pair will 

 measure over three feet along the sweep, and 

 about eight to nine inches round the burr where 

 they spring from the frontal bone. 



Sainbur * love the hill-sides and table-lands 

 which are often clothed with long grass, and, 

 though they will travel a long way during the 

 night for food and water, are seldom found during 

 the day-time on the more level portions of the 

 forests they inhabit. Having reached the spot 

 where they intend to lie up for the day, and 

 having first taken a good look round to assure 

 themselves that no enemy is in their vicinity, they 

 proceed to make a form very like a hare's in the 

 long grass, generally under the shade of a tree. 

 These forms are usually made when the grass is 

 green, and resorted to daily by the sambur, as 

 long as they frequent that particular locality, and 

 remain undisturbed. This fact is well known by 

 the jungle tribes, and they can make pretty certain 

 of the whereabouts of the animal, and the usual 

 route he pursues going from and returning to his 



* Rusa Aristotelis. 



