Jungle By -Ways in India 



by themselves, the large herds consisting entirely 

 of old and young does and immature stags. 



As I sat an interested spectator of this great 

 herd, which numbered some fifty individuals, 

 and there may have been more, a sudden sharp 

 note came into the squeak of one of the does. 

 The old stag threw up his noble head in sharp 









Herd of Barasingha leaving the forest to graze. 



annoyance, and if ever a stag swore deeply the 

 patriarch not 40 yards from me did so. Here 

 he was, in a beautiful secluded forest-encircled 

 green nook, just commencing his evening meal 

 on his favourite sweet-scented pasture, and those 

 pestilent females persisted in sounding the note of 

 alarm. ' What can they mean ? ' he muttered, as 

 other does caught up and gave out the alarm 

 signal. Some of the does began edging off towards 

 the forest; one or two of the smaller stags ex- 

 hibited evident signs of uneasiness ! The great stag 



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