THE MUNTJACS 



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species has a dark iron-grey pelage, and the late Mr. Consul 

 Swinhoe described it as very Goat- like in aspect. 



Oiqrrcohis. — The Iloe Deer has fairly complex antlers. It is 

 a small Deer and has spotted young. The common Eoe Deer, 

 C. capraca, is a native of this country. It is the smallest of our 

 Deer, and its antlers only have three tines in stags of the third 

 year. It is a singular fact about this Deer that though the pair- 

 ing season is in July and August, the young are not born until 

 the following May or June, a period which does not represent 

 that of gestation. The germ remains dormant for some time 

 before developing. 



The Muntjacs, Cervulus, form a distinct generic type confined 

 to the Indian and the South-Eastern Palaearctic region. They 



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Fig. 1 53. — Mule Deer. Cariacus macrotis. 



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are small Deer with spotted young, and short one-branched antlers 

 placed upon pedicels as long as themselves. The canines are 

 strongly developed in the males; There are about half-a-dozen 

 species. 



Cariacus is exclusively American in range, and contains about 

 twenty species. There are or are not upper canines. The young 



