462 WILD ANIMALS. 



herd had increased he parted with one of the male fawns to the 

 Zoological Society of London in June, 1881. This rare animal, 

 which was a beautiful and graceful specimen of the deer family, 

 has unfortunately lately died. When any attempt was made to 

 photograph him, he invariably expressed his dissatisfaction at the 

 proceeding by bellowing and looking as though he would like to 

 get at the camera and destroy the whole apparatus if he could. 

 "While in this attitude he was therefore taken, and that the result 

 was not a better picture is due to the fact that the exposure had 

 to be made with extreme rapidity, for in bellowing, the horns or 

 mouth would hardly be motionless for an appreciable division of 

 time. Nevertheless the position is a graceful and very natural 

 one. 



