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Sorae one got Mr. Hornaday to believe that it is not found south of the 

 Godavari, but it is in all provinces of this presidency, except the 

 Konkan and North Kanara. 



A very ticklish weapon called " Maru " ( ^ Death) was made, chiefly 

 for the use of gosains and other ascetics, of a pair of black buck 

 or gazelle horns steel tipped and set with the butts overlapping and 

 linked, in the form of parallel rules opened to a right angle with 

 their brass links. 



This gazelle closes our list of Bombay antelopes. But the allied 

 Q. suhgiitturosa occurs in Afghanistan down to Pishin. Its females 

 are hornless ; ours have small horns. 



After the gazelles come the Cervidoe, and Mr. Blanford begins his 

 description of these with one of the smallest, Cervulus Mimtjak. 



As in other cases, he has cleared away a lot of useless Latin 

 synonyms and pseudo species ; and his Maratha name is here nearly 

 right, "Bekar" for Bekacl; shared ^with the four-horned antelope. 

 The best English name is the Bengal one, '' Barking deer." 



With us this little beast, which belongs rather to the Malayan 

 fauna, is generally confined to the densest jungles of the Western 

 ghats and Satpura; outside of these, "Bekad" usually means TV^raceros. 

 They are continually mixed up together by both native and 

 English sportsmen; although resembling each other only in size. 

 Bombay horns are short, compared to those from further East and 

 South ; and, indeed, the little deer is here on the very frontier of its 

 region. 



Passing over several deer, not known within our province, we come 

 to an animal almost extinct in it, Cervus Duvaticeli, the Swamp deer.* 

 Our author gives no Panjabi name, though he knows that the animal 

 exists in the Panjab. He gives the Sindi name as "Goin" not 

 " Knowin" that the terminal " d " is only dropped as the g in that 

 participle. The present writer has seen, Kke Mr. Blanford, the only 

 reliable evidence of the Swamp deer's existence in Sind, viz., General 

 Marston's heads, and those in the mosque at Ghotki in Shikarpur. 



* Mr. Blandfopd has corrected the supposition that he, at any rate, misoontrued 

 a passage probably referring to this deer as concerning a Rhinoceros. His letter on 

 the enbiect will appear in next number. 



