Marsh- Deer 



below the hock and knee, in advance of which the extremities are 

 white, and the black streak on the nose is wanting. The young are 

 not spotted. 



This deer has never been exhibited in the London Zoological Gardens, 

 although a specimen was living in the menagerie at Berlin in 1896. I 

 have never seen a fully adult example, and the species is best known to me 



Fig. 74. — Young Marsh-Deer. From a photograph by the Duchess of Bedford. 



by an immature mounted specimen at Woburn Abbey, and the equally 

 young examples forming the subject of Fig. 74. It is somewhat curious to 

 note that the coloration of this species is almost identical with that of the 

 so-called maned wolf [Cams jubatus) of the same districts. 



Although ten is the normal number of their points, the antlers of this 

 species are liable to " sport " in an extraordinary degree ; specimens as 

 complex as the one represented in Fig. 75 being by no means uncommon. 

 The following dimensions of antlers are taken from Mr. Rowland Ward's 

 Records of Big Game : — 



