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RECORDS OF BIG GAME 



Head of Male Hog-Deer. 



HOG-DEER or PARA (Cervus porcinus). 



Allied to the Bavian deer, but the antlers larger, the build longer 

 and lower, and the summer coat of the adult, as well as that of the 

 }'oung, spotted with yellowish white. General colour in winter rufous or 

 yellowish brown, somewhat speckled above, and much darker beneath ; 

 in summer, upper parts paler and more or less spotted. Antlers on 

 long pedicles, with the hinder tine of the terminal fork the shorter. 

 Height at shoulder from about 25 to 29 inches. Weight about 90 to 

 100 lbs. The largest pair ever seen by Mr. A. O. Hume belonged to 

 a specimen he shot in the Ganges Khadir, near Meerut. It measured 

 20 along the beam inside, and had a mid-beam girth of 3.5. It was 

 destroyed in the Mutiny, the house in which it was hung, with several 

 hundred others, having been burnt down. 

 Distribution. — India, throughout the Indo-Gangetic plain from Sind 



and the Punjab to Assam, thence through Sylhet to Burma and 



Tenasserim. 



Locality. 



Owner. 



Vet.-Capt. G. H. Evans. 

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