CHITAL or AXIS DEER 
(Cervus axis) 
The Chital is generally considered the most beautiful of all the deer. 
Its coat is permanently spotted, a condition occurring only in the young 
of most of the deer family. The species occurs over much of the pen- 
insula of India from the foothills of the Himalayas into the Island 
of Ceylon. 
Collected through the courtesy of Maharani Surat Kunwar, O.B.E., of Karigarh, 
Oudh. 
Animals by Clarence Albrecht 
Background by C. C. Rosenkranz 
