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border. The Fallow-deer have the head pale brownish- 

 gray ; the Axis bears a dark spot on the forehead, and 

 a blackish-brown line down the face. Fallow-deer have 

 the buttocks of a pure white, marked on each side with 

 a black line, and the tail, black above, is white below; 

 the Axis shews no white on the buttocks, the fulvous of 

 the thigh extending over that space, and the tail itself is of 

 the same colour, with only a part dark towards the tip ; 

 the belly and interior of the thighs are white, and the rest 

 of the limbs pale-brown ; the convex part of the ear is 

 brown-gray, and the internal border black. But the Axis, 

 although he sheds his hair, does not, like the Fallow-deer, 

 change his colour ; his muzzle is broader, and the head 

 thicker and longer. But these distinctions are not con- 

 stant in all the varieties and breeds. 



The Dacca districts and Rohilla country replete with 

 forests, seem to produce the large fulvous varieties with 

 two rows of oval white spots on the back, and with 

 higher shoulders than the smaller, which are the true Hog- 

 deer of Indian sportsmen on the Cosimbasar Island, in the 

 Jungleterry and the Bahar. Some of the latter have the 

 belly of the colour of the flanks, a sort of mouse colour, 

 with a full white streak along the side, and two large oval 

 white spots on each side of the tail, which is also shorter 

 than in other varieties. In the forests of Ceylon they are 

 also large, straight-backed like a cow, without the oval 

 rows and chocolate streak on the back, and the face is 

 wholly buff, with the nose rather prolonged. 



The female is larger than the doe, and her head some- 

 what longer ; the male is about the size of the Fallow-deer ; 

 the fawns are marked with spots like the adults. In their 

 habits they are gregarious and pacific, the males living 

 peaceably with the females *. The voice of the Axis is a 



* M. F. Cuvier mentions a singular habit in a female of twist- 

 ing the neck upwards, somewhat like the Wryneck, without any 



