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never seen more than two together. I have seen 

 them amid the long grass and low jungles on the 

 banks of the Indus, and also near Delhi, on the 

 banks of the Jumna. They abound in the valley 

 of the Doon, but are there very difficult to get a 

 shot at, except from the back of an elephant. I 

 remember on two occasions shooting them with 

 shot, once in the Barrara jungle, near Delhi, when 

 beating for black partridges, and once at the close 

 of a day's snipe-shooting in a large swamp near 

 Roorkee. On this occasion I was passing through 

 some high grass and reeds that fringed the 

 swamp, when a something rushed past me only a 

 few yards off, and I blazed at it, not knowing 

 what it was, until I discovered a dead para lying 

 out in the open some forty yards beyond the cover, 

 shot through the neck. 



I have never seen any hog-deer in the Central 

 Provinces, and I believe their habitat is confined 

 to the Punjab, Scinde, and the Gangetic valley, in 

 India proper. It is, I believe, very abundant in 

 Assam and Burmah, but I never had an oppor- 

 tunity of visiting those favoured regions. I have 

 been told that they are often speared by members 

 of the Meerut Tent Club, when out pig-sticking 

 in the Kadir, or old bed of the Ganges, that cele- 

 brated spot in the pig-sticking world. A para 



