Economic Uses 3 1 



no less than 424 tons weight were sold in London in 1 89 1 , the price 

 ranging from £1 to ^Ti : 6s. per hundredweight. Fallow deer skins, 

 known in the trade as buckskin, also afford a most excellent soft and pliable 

 leather, but it is difficult to obtain accurate figures of the number sold. 

 It is from this species that most of the venison sold in the London shops 

 is obtained. 



Fig. 5. — Head of Chital, from East Bcrar, in the possession of Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Whitby. 

 The antlers are the longest on record, measuring 38 inches along the curve. 



