THE LIFE OF MAMMALS 
another species (Schomburgk’s) and the lower Malay Penin- 
sula and Hainan a third (the thamin). They are mainly grazers, 
and are to be looked for in large herds on favorable grass lands 
where they will pasture all day if not much disturbed. 
There comes in here a Chinese deer which is as remarkable 
in its history as in its physical peculiarities, — the ‘‘mi-lou”’ of 
the Peking Chinese, to whom it has been known 
from a remote period as an inhabitant of the vast 
imperial hunting park south of that city. Here herds roamed 
about, and furnished sport for the Court; but the deer was not 
Mi-lou. 
THE MI-LOU, OR PEKING PARK DEER. 
known wild, nor has any knowledge been handed down of its 
native place. It was not until 1865, indeed, that its existence 
was known to Europeans, and several years afterward before a 
living specimen reached Europe. Now it is represented in 
many European menageries, and breeds there freely, as might 
be expected of an animal habituated for many generations to 
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