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spot large enough for the purjDOse if the 

 ground is too sloping. They seldom, if ever, 

 lie in the sun, even in the coldest weather, 

 and then- forms are always made where 

 there is something to shelter them from its 

 rays. Towards evening they begin to move, 

 and during the night appear to wander 

 about a good deal, from top to bottom of the 

 hill, or from one side to another. In the day 

 they are seldom seen moving about. Their 

 nocturnal rambles are apparently as much 

 for recreation as in search of food, as they 

 often visit regularly some steep ledge of 

 rock or precipice, where there is little or 

 no vegetation. The Puharries believe 

 that they come to such places to play 

 and dance with each other, and often set 

 their snares along the edge of such a 

 ledge or precipice, in preference to the 

 forest. 



If not walking leisui'ely and slowly along, 

 the musk-deer always goes in bounds, all 

 fours leaving and alighting on the ground 

 together. Wlien at full speed, these bounds 



