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hind is of a lighter brown shade, and she has less of the 

 long- hair, resembling a mane, on her neck. The jurrow of the 

 liiglier Himalayas has a darker and thicker coat, and it is also 

 provided with a close undergrowth of very soft pile, called 

 pushum, which in winter is common to all the quadrupeds 

 if those high cold regions, even to the dogs and horses. 

 Having shot all the so-called three varieties, I am certain 

 (liat, in point of appearance, this is the only difference be- 

 Iwcen them, and in habits they are the same. Though not 

 unlike the British red-deer in shape, the jurrow is very much 

 larger. But it seldom or never has more than three regular 

 points on each horn, though occasionally it may have one or 

 hvo extra snags. I possess a pair of jurrow horns which 

 measure forty-two inches in length, with an average girth of 

 l)('am of eight inches, and a span of a yard inside the bend, 

 lUit such a jurrow head as this never fell to my rifle, and 

 soldom, I imagine, to that of any one else. The eyepits in 

 tliis deer are always large, and become much more open and 

 protuberant when the animal is in an excited state. 



The little barking-deer ( Cervulus aureus), also termed rib- 

 faced deer, from the peculiar formation of the frontal bone, 

 and called " kakur" by the hill-men, was common in these 

 forests. It is found in most Indian jungles, and, like the 

 jurrow, from the higher ranges downwards. In Madras it 

 is known as the " jungle sheep," and I believe it is identical 

 with the muntjac of the more eastern parts of Asia. It is 

 rather smaller than a roe-deer, and bright red like that 

 animal in its summer coat. Its head is curiously shaped, 

 that of the buck being surmounted with two continuations 

 of the V-shaped ribbed bone of its forehead, about two inches 

 long, and covered with skin and hair. From these grow the 

 horns, which in a full-grown buck are three or four inches 

 in length, curved inwards at the top, and with one short prong 

 just above the burr, projecting to the front and slightly up- 

 wards. Although I have seen numbers of this curious little 

 Ij deer at all seasons, and killed many of them myself with 



