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not far from Seonee, and it is tolerably abundant in the open forest land 

 between Mundlah and Omerkuntak at the source of the Nerbudda. To 

 the east of this forest tract it has been killed near Midnapore, and in the 

 highlands of Goomsoor; but does not, as far as is known, extend so far 

 west as the road between Mirzapore and Jubbulpore. It is very gregarious, 

 being often found in large flocks feeding in plains near the forests, and 

 when pursued often keeping in a close pack till they gain the shelter of the 

 forest. A writer in the Indian Sporting Review, thus speaks of these deer 

 as he saw them in Central India. " The plain stretched away in gentle 

 undulations towards the river, distant about a mile, and on it were three 

 large herds of barasinghas feeding at once time : the nearest was not more 

 than five hundred yards away from where I stood ; there must have been at 

 least fifty of them, stags, hinds, and fawns, feeding together in a lump, and 

 outside the herd grazed three most enormous stags. . . . Then the herd 

 went off in earnest, showing a perfect forest of antlers, and the clatter of 

 their hoofs on the hard ground was like the sound of a squadron of cavalry 

 going to water."* According to Hodgson, it never enters the mountains 

 of the Himalayas, nor even habitually frequents the depths of the forests. 

 His lair is on the skirts of large forests amidst swampy and grassy glades. 

 It is found sparingly in the forests of the Dehra and Kyarda Doons, and 

 here it is occasionally found on the low hills as well as on the valleys. 

 I have seen it in ])ehra Doon in long grass, and in forest in the 

 Kyarda Doon. It is said to be exceedingly numerous in Assam, enormous 

 herds occurring in the grassy churs of rivers. It is stated to feed both 

 on grass and on the bark and young shoots of trees. 



The name Maha sometimes applied to this deer is also given to the 

 Samber stag, and it is occasionally called Jhank, a name usually applied 

 to the male spotted deer. This deer is now living in the Zoological 

 Society's Gardens, London, and has bred there. 



A remarkable deer that approaches the last in size and some of its 

 characters is the Panolia Eldi, Guthrie, Blyth's Cat. 486, the Cervus 

 frontalis, McClelland, and C. dimorphe, Hodgson, the Burmese or brow- 

 antlered deer. Gray, in his Catalogue of Hodgson's CoUection, gives both 

 Panolia Eedii, and Rusa dimorpha, from Nepal, as distinct species. The 

 basal antler is directed forwards, and is very long, and the horns are 

 very divergent, with fewer terminal branches than the last. It is found 

 in Munnipore, where called Sung-nai or Sing-nai, and thence southwards 



• Indian Sporting Eeyiew, vol. XVIII., p, 19. 



