BARKING, MOUSE, AND SWAMP DEER 107 



BARKING DEER 

 (Cervus muntjae) 



These deer are usually found only in hilly localities, but 

 I have occasionally come across a few in the plains some 

 distance from the Bhootan Hills, and also in Burma in the 

 vicinity of the Yomahs. 



If alarmed or wounded, they will call, with an imitation of 

 a dog's bark, and can be heard a long distance off. They 

 have peculiar horns and long canine teeth, Roman noses, 

 a decidedly ugly head, two dark lines down each cheek, and 

 a tuft of black hair as a sort of brow over the eyes. If 

 anything, the female is uglier than the male. These are also 

 good eating the females for choice. A serang at Port 

 Dalhousie shot one, and converted nearly the whole of it 

 into a dry curry, which he assured me would keep good for 

 a year. It was certainly very good to eat when I tasted it, 

 shortly after it had been made. 



MOUSE DEER 

 (Memimna indicd] 



This pretty little deer is found towards Tavoy and Mergui, 

 and further south in Malaya they are so plentiful that often 

 a dozen can be bought for a rupee. I did not care for its 

 flesh, as it had a peculiar taste. 



THE SWAMP OR MARSH DEER 

 (Rucervus davoucilit) 



This fine deer has an extended habitat. I have shot them 

 in the Northern Circars, Madras Presidency ; they are found 

 in the forest land at the foot of the Himalaya, in the Central 

 Provinces and Goomsoor, but nowhere are they so abundant 

 as in Assam and the Bhootan Terai. Some years ago they 



