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galloping back quite close to us, so that my coolies thought of trying 

 to catch it, but it soon made oflf after its mother, going at a great 

 pace. An hour or two later, we saw what I believed to be the same 

 herd, or part of it, at a distance of about 150 yards. They were then 

 four in number and I did not notice the fawn, so possibly the mother 

 and fawn were resting elsewhere. They were all does. On the 24th 

 February 1907, a few miles north of Nawng Pla Duk station on the 

 Southern Railway, in approximate Lat. 13° 55,' Long. 99° 55,' also in 

 Ratburi Muang, I saw a female " lamang." 



These deer frequent gi'assy plains, and at that time considerable 

 areas in the district last mentioned were covered with coarse grass 

 from 6 to 10 feet high, which afforded excellent cover and shade, more 

 especially as there was a fair proportion of trees growing in the 

 grass jungle. I fancy that most of this area has since been brought 

 under cultivation. It was being rapidly settled at that time. The 

 district around Chawm Bung does not seem very suitable for these deer, 

 as it is more or less closely covered with tree-jungle, and the grass in 

 the glades is short and sparse in the dry season. These deer cannot 

 live far from water. In recent years the plain of Chawni Bung itself 

 has been largely brought under cultivation. Formerly it would have 

 furnished an ideal haunt for these deer. There has also been an 

 enormous increase in the number of people who enier tlii= district in 

 the dry season for the purpose of cutting timber. This is taken out in 

 bullock carts and used for building purposes, railway sleepers, fish traps 

 in the gulf, &c. The wood-cutters do a certain amount of game 

 shooting by sitting up over watei-holes, and as the " lamang " cannot 

 go long without water, or travel far in the hot season to get it, it 

 seems to me probable that this deer majT- have been almost, if not quite, 

 exterminated by now on the west side of the Meklawng River by this 

 method of shooting. 



I was informed in the present year that, in the district of 

 Chorake Sampan in tiie Province of Nakawn Chaisi, which is just north 

 of Muang Kanburi, in Ratburi Province, the "■ lamang " occasionally 

 enter and feed on the rice crops during the wet season. 



I have heard it stated that no " lamang " are found west of the 

 Menam Chao Praya. From what I have stated this is evidently not so. 

 Apart from that, these deer were found until recent years in patches of 

 high grass-jungle between the railway and the river, north of Lopburi 



