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sambur can be heard for a long distance, rever- 

 berating among the hills in which he loves to 

 dwell. The call of the hind is much fainter, and 

 is a faint, grunting sort of bark. There is ano- 

 ther sort of cry, however, used by both sexes 

 a short, sharp, ringing snort, which I myself have 

 never heard till after sunset. 



I only once came across the swamp,* or twelve- 

 tined deer, commonly known as the bara singha 

 (twelve horns) of Central India, (which must 

 not be confounded with the Kashmir stag cervus 

 Cashmeriensis also known as bara singha.) This 

 was at a spot near Kikri, in the Doon valley. A 

 herd of seven, comprising two good stags, galloped 

 across the road I was walking on one evening 

 whilst returning to camp. I had a snap shot at 

 them, but missed, and never again came across 

 them. 



Jerdon describes them as standing about forty- 

 four to forty-six inches high, six feet in length, 

 tail about eight inches ; form lighter than the 

 sambur, colour dull, yellowish-brown in winter r 

 light chestnut in summer ; horns about three feet 

 in length, with often fourteen or fifteen points ; 

 and says they used to be found, sparingly, through 

 Central India, to be rare south of the Narbada,, 

 but to have been killed between that river and 



* Kucervus Duvaucelli. 



