1867.] Captain B. G Beavan on Banolia eldi. ]81 



" Their food, I imagine, consists of grass. I cannot call to mind 

 Laving seen more than one fawn with its mother. 



" The colour of the young, as well as that of the females, is what is 

 termed light fawn colour (light rufous ?) The males are sometimes 

 of the same, and sometimes as dark as the male of the Sambur, Busa 

 Jtippelaphus. I know not if any change takes place in their coats with 

 the change of seasons." 



Colonel D. Brown, Officiating Commissioner at Moulmein, has 

 noticed them to range along both banks of the Irrawaddy, on the 

 proper right bank up to Meanoung, and on the left bank as far as 

 Meaday, on the British frontier, N. Lat 19° 40' E. Long. 95° 20' 

 (approximately). He has also observed them as plentiful at Theeg- 

 wen, near Bassein, a few at Padoung opposite Prome, and to be more 

 sparsely scattered through the Therrawaddy district. 



For most of the following information I am indebted to the courtesy 

 of J. Davis, Esq., Superintendent of Police in the Martaban District, 

 an Officer well known for his intimate acquaintance with the Burmese 

 language ; hence his services as interpreter were invaluble when Bur- 

 mese and Karen Shikarees had to be questioned. 



Pioneered by him, early in October last, I visited the haunts of 

 the Thamyn near Thatore (a town about 40 miles N. W. of Moulmein), 

 and although, owing to the dense nature of the vegetation covering the 

 plains at that time of year, I was only able to see a few scattered 

 females and young of the second year, yet the insight thus afforded into 

 their habits and economy more than repaid me for the severe attack 

 of illness I subsequently incurred by exposure to the heat and wet. 



This plain of Yengyaing was then, owing to the recent and heavy 

 falls of rain, one large swamp. Nearly the whole of its unbroken 

 extent, which embraces an area of 14 miles in length with an average 

 breadth of 10, could be traversed in a small canoe, except here 

 and there, where mud and vegetation combined obliged one to resort 

 to a very unpleasant system of half wading in water, and half stick- 

 ing in deep slime. A continuation of this plain, broken up by belts 

 of jungle, extends for several hundreds of miles up the Burmese coast, 

 and has evidently been formed by the gradual retirement of the sea, 

 which at one time doubtless dashed its waves against the Martaban 

 and other continuous ranges of laterite hills. It is now, at Yengyaing, 



