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aristotelis) or jarrow is a noble animal, from 14 to 15 hands 

 in height, with antlers often a foot in circumference and 

 4 feet long, is found on the banks of the Jumna and Ganges 

 in their mountain courses. A few stray along the sub-Hima- 

 layan valleys, and have been shot and seen near Simla. 

 On the Cashmere ranges, however, its native stag would 

 appear to reign supreme. 



Eld's deer (Cerous eldii), found in the valley of Munee- 

 poor, Burmah, and Malayan Peninsida, is worthy of note in 

 a list of the antlered deer of Central Asia. 



On the 25th of April we continued our hunting excursions. 

 I ascended a mountain behind the village of Sipoor, and came 

 on abundant trail of deer. A black bear was seen scampeiv 

 ing towards a wood, and we flushed a woodcock in the forest, 

 and several coveys of chuckore on the bare hOI-sides. 

 The Himalayan and yellow-backed woodpecker were com- 

 mon. Young wounded a deer which he lost after a tedious 

 pursuit through the forest ; Halkett reported having seen a 

 wild cat (Felis hengalensis) of the small striped species. 

 The shickarees picked up several antlers newly shed with 

 their points gnawed, but nothing was bagged that day. On 

 the following morning I crossed the Duchinpara, and ascended 

 the wooded ridge opposite, by the side of a broad grassy 

 opening : traces of deer were plentiful, for, irrespective of foot- 

 prints, the bark had been peeled off the trees by them, whilst 

 the fresh-ploughed soil in the forest showed that bears had 

 been lately digging for roots. We did not reach the brow of 

 the hill before the report of a rifle in a jungle below drew our 

 attention in that direction, when soon afterwards two harts 

 were seen charging at fuU speed across the moimtain-side 

 towards a belt of forest trees. This unexpected intrusion on 

 our evening's beat obliged us to retreat homewards. When 



