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From the above data, and judging from the large number of heads I have 
examined in Rangoon, the following inferences may be drawn, That in the 
Northern districts of its habitat the horns of R. thamin tend to few and small 
basal snags, the number and size of the snags tending to increase the further 
South they live in Burma, and to decrease in 8. E. Siam. That roughness (or the 
reverse) of the beam is an individual peculiarity with, perhaps, a tendency in 
Siam to more pronounced “ pearling’”’. That the sub-terminal tine is always 
present in Burma specimens but is inclined to disappear the further to the South- 
East we goin Siam. (My own specimen from the Meping valley has large sub- 
terminal tines). That palmation is rare in Burma but that there is a strong 
tendency to palmation in Siamese specimens, though I should say that under 40: 
per cent. of Siamese heads are palmated. 
From such data it seems undesirable to differentiate geographical races and 
sub-species which must evidently grade into one another, until bodily character- 
istics come to light which give us definite differences from definite districts. 
I was told that stags in the Meping valley are spotted in the hot weather, but 
could not obtain a skin or other confirmation. 
I hear that Mr. Thomas is now working out the races of the Thamin, and all 
sportsmen and naturalists will be greatly interested in the results. 
C. H. STOCKLEY, Majsor. 
CHAKLALA, PUNJAB, 
July 1921, 
No. VIII.—A BABY HOG DEER IN CAPTIVITY. 
“* Going mad.” 
One of the daintiest little pets, I have ever had, and I have had a great many 
of all sorts, is a baby para (Hog deer), ‘‘Wee-Wun” was picked up by a mahout 
when we were beating with a line of elephants the grass lands by the Kasi River 
in the Mowng in March. The place was swarming with para, every fifty yards or 
so there would be a rustle in the grass and up would jump a para, jinking in and 
out of the grass with head low and ears laid flat back. Even when not scared 
