176 Capt. B. G. Beavan on Banolia EJdi. [No. 3, 



beam, rather as an extension of the horn itself than as a mere shoot. 

 The horn may be compared to the segment of a circle, the burr, or 

 root from which both limbs extend, being placed on the outer circum- 

 ference. The beam is round, and terminates by a fork, as in the 

 Rusa deer. The lower prolongation of the horn beneath the burr 

 may also be said to terminate in a fork, for on the left horn, about 

 two inches below the root, there is a small snag directed forward. In 

 illustration of this notice, a figure of the horns is given at pi. 12." 



Captain Eld, one of the principal assistants to the Commissioner 

 of Assam, who had been previously attached to the British Residency 

 in Muneypore, having had his attention called to the notice and the 

 figure alluded to, soon after wrote an interesting letter on the subject, 

 which affords the first general information hitherto received relative 

 to the habits and character of this interesting species. His description 

 is as follows :* " I observe mention made of a new description of 

 Deer, said to exist between Munipore and Cachar ; some specimens 

 of the horns of which were procured in the latter place by Captain 

 Guthrie. From the drawing, it is evident to me that the Deer alluded 

 to is of the kind originally discovered by myself in the valley of 

 Munipore in the beginning of 1838, and several pairs of the antlers 

 of which were given by me to Captain Guthrie in the same year, 

 I had intended at the time to send a description of the animal to one 

 of the Journals, but was told that a similar Deer was to be found in 

 the north-western jungles. As this, however, does not appear to= be 

 the case, I now forward you a correct drawing of a pair of the horns 

 in my possession, together with a short account of the animal &c. 

 taken from notes made at the time in my sporting diary ; and which 

 you are welcome to make use of in any way you please. 



" The Sungraee, as it is called by the natives, or large Deer of 

 Munipore, is only to be found in the valley of that state, but neither 

 in Cachar, nor the Kubo valley, nor in any of the Naga hills surround- 

 ing Munipore. Its favourite haunts are the low grass and swamps 

 round the edge of the Logta, (lake) at the western end of the valley, 

 and the marshy ground at the foot of the hills, It is gregarious in 

 its habits, and after the annual grass burning, I have frequently seen 

 herds of two and three hundred. The colour of the males from the 

 month of November, till about the end of May, is of a dark brown, 

 * Calcutta Journal Natural History, Vol. II. p. 415. 



