BULLET AND SHOT 



THE SWAMP DEER (Rucervus Duvaucellt) 



This fine deer stands about eleven or eleven and 

 a half hands in height. It is, in winter, of a dull 

 yellowish -brown colour, changing to chestnut in 

 summer, with the under parts at all seasons white. 

 The does are lighter in colour, and the fawns 

 spotted. 



Swamp deer are found in forest tracts at the foot 

 of the Himalayas and in Nepaul, are very abundant 

 on the Brahmaputra churs (islands in the river) in 

 Assam, are found in large herds in open, park-like 

 country, and in the saul forests in various portions 

 of Central India, and occur also in the eastern 

 Sunderbunds of Bengal. 



In the Dehra Doon, the Nepaul Terai and 

 Assam, this deer is usually shot from elephants, 

 but in Central India, where it inhabits more open 

 country, it can be stalked and shot on foot. 



The swamp deer is frequently called the bara- 

 singha (literally twelve horns) on account of each 

 perfect mature horn usually carrying six points, 

 but Jerdon mentions having seen as many as 

 seventeen points upon some old heads, and states 

 that fourteen and fifteen are not uncommon. 



Rowland Ward gives 41 inches as the length 

 of the longest horn within his knowledge, and 

 twenty-three as the largest number of points upon 

 a head. Such a length is, however, very unusual, 

 anything over 30 inches being good. The head 



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